"Sperm whale" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at the Portland fishery were of two kinds, the right or black whale, and the sperm whale. The right whale has an immense tongue, and lives by suction, the food being a kind of small shrimp. When in a flurry—that is, when she has received her death-stroke with the lance—she goes round in ...
— The Book of the Bush • George Dunderdale
... The sperm whale, or cachalot, (genus physeter) is a rare visitor in the higher latitudes. Now and then a solitary specimen is taken in the Northern Atlantic, but the best place to catch a lot is on the Pacific coast. It may be mentioned incidentally, as a curious meteorological ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 19, August 6, 1870 • Various |
