Predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas.
Slaty-grey blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seas.
1 Gulls darted overhead; and past the canoe dived the great floundering grampus .
2 Jan held on and breathed through his nose, snorting like a grampus .
3 The grampus , thirty feet long, never killed on the same account.
4 I, for one, was puffing, too- Iwaspanting like a grampus .
5 I gasped and coughed like a grampus : the stalk was down my throat still.
6 See, the knaves be bringing their grampus across the court.
7 But I could not resist giving that grampus Corbucci one bad moment on account.
8 He roared like a grampus but had an immense success.
9 His snufflings, and snortings, and splashings were like those of a grampus at play.
10 Which o' the three are you speaking of - the grampus ?
11 Dark was comforting himself with a pinch of snuff, snorting over it like a perfect grampus .
12 If the girl's willin' to have me I'll wed her in spite o' the old grampus .
13 See here: his line is quiverin' as if a grampus was nibblin' at the end of it.
14 Nor a grampus , nor a porpoise even?
15 The sea-leopard is its competitor, though not nearly so ferocious as the grampus , of whom it lives in terror.
16 Scarcely a sound could be heard but the occasional breathing of the grampus , and the rippling at the cut-water.
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