That first night with us on board the whaler was a fearful time. From Wordnik.com. [The Honour of the Flag] Reference
In the pictures here were it a normal circumstance, the whaler is the give way vessel. From Wordnik.com. [‘Capt.’ Paul Watson, COME ON DOWN! You’re the Grand Prize Winner in Bob Barker’s Animal Jihad! - Vladimir’s blog - RedState] Reference
The whaler was a kind of pirate-miner - an excavator of oceanic oil, stoking the furnace of the Industrial. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
A most important contrivance belonging to a whaler is the crow's-nest, which I may describe as a sentry-box at the mast-head. From Wordnik.com. [Peter the Whaler] Reference
The going and the coming of a "whaler" made Crip's father, Mr. John. From Wordnik.com. [St. Nicholas, Vol. 5, No. 5, March, 1878] Reference
With a penitent whaler from the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Decemberists Day] Reference
Rogers of the Happy Return whaler, 1688; Dr. Henry. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Joe Beetham, who was coming on shore from the whaler. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
One would hardly expect to find such books on a whaler. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
George Pollard Jr., at 28 already an experienced whaler. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Top Stories] Reference
A whaler had appeared and all the men had gone out to her. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
Bedford; the only whaler under sail in these seas, I reckon. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
A whaler appeared and two boats were to be seen coming from it. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
The men did not get back from the whaler till nearly midnight. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
Walter Swain, who was here last year, has landed from the whaler. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
They saw what they said was a whaler; we could just see something. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
A mother bear, with two cubs, came too near a whaler, and was shot. From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotes of Animals] Reference
Mr. Dodgson advised us to go to St. Helena and there await a whaler. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
A female bear, with two cubs, approached near a whaler, and was shot. From Wordnik.com. [A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals] Reference
Bedford whaler Henry Clay, knowing well enough that whaling couldn't be. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892] Reference
We are having a whole holiday to-day owing to the presence of the whaler. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
I cannot say that I was continually worried by my state aboard the whaler. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
The whaler is from America and will probably be here for two or three days. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
As the men think it is a whaler they are not going out to it till to-morrow. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
A mild type of influenza is going the round, caught no doubt on a whaler. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
Leviathan, an American whaler, lay in harbour, and Typee shipped on board her. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
I rec'lect one of the men who wer oncest on a whaler with me a v'y'ge or two to. From Wordnik.com. [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference
As I say, without these words I could have been sure that the bark was a whaler. From Wordnik.com. [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference
The whaler was managed equally well by Mr. Patey, and came in an excellent second. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
Beetham told us the whaler is calling at Mauritius, so Graham has written a line to the. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
We hope we shall be able to get some extra food from the whaler; and some cocks and hens!. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
He has been so kind in remembering the island each time a whaler has come from St. Helena. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
The men said before they started they were sure the ship was a whaler; and they were right. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
The men returned this evening from the whaler, from which they have got more flour and material. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
Itajung became a highly respected man, for he was by far the best whaler in all the Inuit tribe. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Eskimo Tales] Reference
In 1860 she had only very few vessels left, and in 1872 her last whaler, the bark "Oak," was sold. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886] Reference
A holiday in honour of the presence of the whaler has given an opportunity for weeding the garden. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference
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