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From time to time a porpoise swam up, and with a sudden roll disappeared below the scarcely ruffled surface.
DREAM TALES AND PROSE POEMSIVAN TURGENEV
There is a rotund, porpoise-shaped globular gentleman known of these parts as 'Bim the Button Man.'
Tad made a long, curving dive not unlike that of a porpoise.
THE PONY RIDER BOYS IN TEXASFRANK GEE PATCHIN
The girls plump as a young porpoise, an shes mine, an Im going to keep her; you can lay to that!
CURSEDGEORGE ALLAN ENGLAND
They were like silver gulls escorting limitless schools of porpoise through placid waters.
THE GLORY OF THE COMINGIRVIN S. COBB
I had a good chance and let fly the harpoon, and, as luck would have it, succeeded in getting a fine porpoise.
MY LIFE IN MANY STATES AND IN FOREIGN LANDSGEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN
Watch oil is made from the porpoise' jaw, and I have not seen anything to equal it.
The harbor porpoise, or "herring-hog," would jump nets and break barricades or die.
Had he not managed to knock the old porpoise himself into shape, till he was grown docile and tractable as a tame rabbit?
DRY FISH AND WETANTHON BERNHARD ELIAS NILSEN
They plunged in and were off like a school of porpoise, one minute under water and the next leaping high into the air.
VACATION WITH THE TUCKER TWINSNELL SPEED
WORDS RELATED TO PORPOISE
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