8 examples of whalemen in sentences

"I have heard a New Bedford whaleman say that he could not forget his eyes," said Captain Scarrow.

The waters of the Northern Pacific, even into the Arctic Sea, have of late years been frequented by our whalemen.

An old American woman has told me she has seen a thousand whalemen at one time ashore off ships in the harbor make night and day a Saturnalia of Occidental pleasure, a hundred fights in twenty-four hours.

Being an experienced whaleman, he evinced no sign of excitement, save in the brilliancy of his dark eye and a very slight flush on his bronzed face.

The quick eye of the whaleman saw at a glance that the effort to back out was hopeless.

Such a catastrophe is of not unfrequent occurrence, when whalemen thus towed by a whale are tempted to hold on too long; and many instances have happened of boats and their crews being in this way dragged under water and lost.

John Murdoch relates (Mallery, 396) that the wife of an Eskimo chief had "a little mark tattooed in each corner of her mouth, which she said were 'whale marks,' indicating that she was the wife of a successful whaleman."

By the time she was ready to meet us there, we would be round Cape Horn, cutting up her whalemen.

8 examples of  whalemen  in sentences