The baleens are the largest of the Cetacea, and also the dumbest. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)
Don't you see that whatever's controlling the baleens is a threat to that, even if you're right and it can never control you? ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)
For reasons which our limited studies have not been able to establish, the baleens are the mental primitives of the Cetacea. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)
While I would not go about destroying towns with a casual wave of my hand, even if I could control the baleens, I think I could see my way to order the elimination of five embarrassments ... ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)
To Cora, their absence posed as great a mystery as the still inexplicable assault of the baleens. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)
Neurophonic projectors much larger than that one will keep these creatures under control, will disrupt their power over the baleens. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)
We knew that the catodons were our best bet for finding out why the baleens were doing what they were. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)
Yet the baleens 'continuing agony was proof that the source of that same pain lay near. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)
"Could the catodons be controlling the baleens, directing these attacks for reasons of their own?" ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)
But what if they're gathering all the baleens within their controlling range? ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)
"Unless the baleens and the catodons, all of them, have been hiding abilities and desires we know nothing about." ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)
" "In the attack we witnessed," she pressed on, "we saw two kinds of baleens-blues and humpbacks. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)
"If you could give us some insight, if you have any idea what is causing the baleens to act in this inexplicably belligerent fashion, that might be a contribution in your favor the courts would recognize." ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)
Either the baleens carried them to the depths, where they could be transferred to the CunsnuC for disposal, or else the CunsnuC rose to the surface to perform the task themselves. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)
Here, then, was the source of the baleens 'madness, here the offstage directors of organized murder. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)
But the effort itself, the hostile premeditated attack by the herd of cetaceans, was so unprecedented that she wouldn't be surprised to learn that the baleens had killed the two orcas because they had been working alongside mankind. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)
Perhaps at that time, "he added thoughtfully," we will reveal what we know about the baleens 'responsibility. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)
"If men who do not understand the ways of Cachalot learn that the baleens are responsible, even indirectly, for the destruction, a greater threat to the Covenant will arise than any single confrontation could ever create." ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)
If we'd been able to look around, I suspect we would have found fins and seis and minkes and all the other baleens out there, too. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)
Their minds must not be as malleable as those of the baleens. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (1980)
there is [a girl] [called] [Safia] she adores baleens ❋ Bilalmk (2008)
That’s [a couple] [called] [baleen] ❋ Avleen + Baljot (2019)
some baleen would [be good] [right now] ❋ LIL Bay Area Mama (2006)
[That guy] [grows] a great [strip] of man-baleen. ❋ CaptainJabbin (2018)
