11 Metaphors for whale

"Hum!" said I. "A whale with the strength of a cavalry regiment would be a pretty whale!"

The whale of a melon was indeed a noble growth, and its price was thirty-five cents.

The Right whale, though many people make Light of it, is unquestionably the heaviest of living creatures.

" The superlative degree is that which is most or least of all included with it: as, "The whale is the largest of the animals that inhabit this globe; the mouse is the smallest of all beasts."Dr.

[Footnote 3: There is nothing insanely arbitrary in these suggestions of likeness; a cloud might very well be like every one of the three; the camel has a hump, the weasel humps himself, and the whale is a hump.]

"But the whale's was not the only skeleton which we saw,here were collected and strung together, the bones of men, women, children, quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, and fish to form perfect specimens.

The sperm whale, or cachalot, (genus physeter) is a rare visitor in the higher latitudes.

'Whales are beautiful beasts,' he said affectionately.

Whales were once bears, but they played too much on the shore and ran away to sea, so they wore off all their fur on the rocks, and had their feet nibbled off by the fishes.

But Atkinson said a whale was a gentle creature, and it was a sort of sea-elephant, and that the most powerful creatures in nature are always the least hurtful.

A whale is the only fish fit to occupy a gentleman's thoughts.

11 Metaphors for  whale