The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the water.    From LearnThat.org.  [Virginia Woolf, Source: To the Lighthouse]

Actually touching a whale is the big aim for all the tourists and they seem to spend many hours trying to do just that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miraculous Air: A Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico by C. M. Mayo] Reference

I think Abrams’ use of the term whale isn’t literal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slusho! History and Download Changes] Reference

Bob Neyland's white whale is the Bonhomme Richard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Navy goes on the hunt for famous shipwreck] Reference

How much is Lee Raymond worth in whale oil and blubber?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Exxon CEO Defends Predecessor’s $400 Million Retirement Package] Reference

To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The flavor of words and phrases ...] Reference

Personally, I suspect the whale is smarter than the AFA.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » American Family Association Pins SeaWorld Death On Lack Of Christianity: ‘Bible Ignored, Trainer Died’] Reference

The sperm whale is 1 of 6 Gulf whales listed as endangered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Lehner: Congress, the Mabus Report, and Why Gulf Restoration Matters for All of Us] Reference

A: If swimming good for your figure, explain whale tome.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » “We Have to Pass the Bill So That You Can Find Out What Is In It”] Reference

The write in won, and the whale is now named Mr. Splashy pants!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gerst Does Colbert Report (With Video) - NASA Watch] Reference

We did hit a peak in whale oil production and had to find substitutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » My Problem With Peak Oil Theory in One Sentance] Reference

Every fourteen minutes, another whale is killed and for no rational reason.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diving Under the North Pole] Reference

The right whale is endangered now because of human hunting habits in the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Should we let some endangered species die? » E-Mail] Reference

Once a whale is beached, it is almost impossible to get it back into the ocean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Limbaugh vows to flee the country if health care passes.] Reference

So football, as the sports world's great white whale, is the most obvious spawning ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [UFL ready for some football, not gimmicks] Reference

He concludes by predicting that “the whale is not coming back for a long time, if ever.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 June | Dr Vino's wine blog] Reference

When the word whale is mentioned, it more than likely means giant monster – probably aquatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slusho! History and Download Changes] Reference

The whale is particularly mentioned in the history of the creation (Gen.i. 21) and is here called the leviathan, as Job xli.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference

She has been nick-named a 'wolphin' (as in 'whale dolphin'): do a google search for that word and you'll get a million hits.    From Wordnik.com.  [The deer-pig, the Raksasa, the only living anthracothere… welcome to the world of babirusas] Reference

Greenlanders call the Narwal the forerunner of the whale; for wherever it is seen, the whale is shortly after sure to follow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities.] Reference

Well, after the really nice piano intro and the rockin '' whale song 'interlude, we get to the meat of the matter when DeYoung sings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tuesday Tune: 'Come Sail Away' by Styx] Reference

A similar case to that of the whale is the ant-eater.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference

Among fish, the whale is the emblem of the tomb, just as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cathedral] Reference

Under the breast-fin of the whale is a reddish-brown spot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celtic Fairy Tales] Reference

The whale is a warm-blooded animal; the fish is cold-blooded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fighting the Whales] Reference

To be short, then, a whale is a spouting fish with a horizontal tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick: or, the White Whale] Reference

The whale was the first of its type to be seen in the Thames in nearly a century.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 22, 2006] Reference

The whale was the second animal taken to the marine mammal hospital at the University of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsvine - Get Smarter Here] Reference

You fight your Dad INSIDE a monstrous time traveling flying whale, which is ALSO your Dad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joystiq] Reference

And forget the so-called whale tail, when the top of a woman's thong is exposed in the back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jeans Rising] Reference

Missing fossils the remarkable whale, which is a mammal, has no plausible evolutionary ancestor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The whale, which is named Tilikum, is to be kept at the park despite its links to two other deaths.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference