Large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat; of Atlantic and Pacific.
1 W'en I uz young 'n foolish, a finback range 'longside me one day, off de Seychelles.
2 For a long time our finback kept station with the boat, as if it were interested in us.
3 Gray finback whales flounder in schools.
4 From which lucid narration I gathered that the finback had himself to thank for his immunity from pursuit.
5 It is not very likely, but it is possible that this finback may carry us out to some distance.
6 Howick held himself in readiness to sheer off quickly in the event of the finback making a turn towards the boat.
7 The whales dived below, fortunately; for one blow of a finback or sulphur bottom would have played skittles with the canoes.
8 When a finback washes into The City with the turning highwater, a boy is discovered in the belly of the whale.
9 In fragments it fell back again into a sea that was lashed into fury by the angry flapping of the finback 's fins.
10 The whalers had been obliged to fall back on the finback or jubarte, a gigantic mammifer, whose attacks are not without danger.
11 Lastly, there is the Jubarte, commonly known as the Finback .
12 Amazing creatures, the California grays, and now they're all gone, along with the blues, and finbacks , and humpbacks, and rights.
13 "Rather rough work, you know," said Dick, "to attack a finback ! "
14 "Tis a finback ! " exclaimed the lieutenant; "he will soon make headway, and be off."
15 'Twas a finback whale, M. Radisson explained; and he protested against the impudence of scratching its back on our keel.
16 W'en I uz young 'n foolish, a finback range 'longside me one day, off de Seychelles.
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