Whales

Whales are large marine animals.

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• The bottle-nosed whale is a furlong long
  • Song The Whale by Michael Flanders & Donald Swann

• Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
  Polonius: By th' Mass, and 'tis like a camel, indeed.
  Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel.
  Polonius: It is backed like a weasel.
  Hamlet: Or like a whale.
  Polonius: Very like a whale.
  • William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene ii

A Literary Map of Moby-Dick (1956) by illustrator Everett Henry.

• "Aye, aye! It was that accursed white whale that razeed me; made a poor pegging lubber of me for ever and a day!" Then tossing both arms, with measureless imprecations he shouted out: "Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up. And this is what ye have shipped for, men! to chase that white whale on both sides of land, and over all sides of earth, till he spouts black blood and rolls fin out."
  • Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851), The Quarter-Deck (Chapter 36)