Cetaceous

I am staying at the home of a friend who is a great admirer of Moby Dick and whose home is replete with cetaceous memorabilia. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If we suppose the case of the discovery of a skeleton of a Greenland whale in a fossil state, not a single cetaceous animal being known to exist, what naturalist would have ventured conjecture on the possibility of a carcass so gigantic being supported on the minute crustacea and mollusca living in the frozen seas of the extreme North? ❋ Unknown (2003)

Lang Ca Ong, the Temple of the Whales, was built in 1911 and had about it a distinctly non-Buddhist air, with its cases of cetaceous skeletons. ❋ Lustbader, Eric (1990)

In reality, it was the tusk of a cetaceous animal inhabiting the northern ocean, and known as the sea-unicorn or narwhal. ❋ Robert Means Lawrence (N/A)

Doubtless the friend to whom the letter was indited was highly edified by the aged doctor's learning, yet one cannot conceive that he would be greatly consoled by being informed, when discussing the patient's cough, that 'in cetaceous Fishes, who have large and strong lungs, the same is not observed; nor yet in oviparous ❋ P. B. M. Allan (N/A)

That is to say, those which people the high seas and those which love the shores; those which inhabit the depths and those which attach themselves to rocks; those which are gregarious and those which live dispersed, the cetaceous, the huge, and the tiny. ❋ Unknown (1895)

Strait, and among the mighty icebergs of Baffin's Bay, we saw no cetaceous creatures, save twice some floundering porpoises, and thrice ❋ George Alfred Townsend (1877)

But, marvellous beyond all, the 'great fish' (falsely so translated, since no cetaceous creature can be denominated a _fish_) into which he was received still lived, and accompanied him. ❋ George Alfred Townsend (1877)

Seven or eight years ago a cetaceous monster was stranded near the ❋ Unknown (1871)

What, then, is this cetaceous monster of which no Cuvier ever thought? ❋ Jules Verne (1866)

South America, like the manatee, which, according to Cuvier, is also a fresh water cetaceous animal? or must we admit that they go up from the sea against the current, as the beluga sometimes does in the rivers of ❋ Unknown (1851)

This herbivorous animal of the cetaceous family, is called by the Indians apcia and avia, * and it attains here generally ten or twelve feet in length. ❋ Unknown (1851)

It has not the fetid smell of whale-oil, or that of the other cetaceous animals which spout water. ❋ Unknown (1851)

To him and Murtagh, the presence of this strange cetaceous animal gave no relief; and, after hearing its call, they sank back to their seats, relapsing into the state of half despondency, half hopefulness, from which it had startled them. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

While talking of cetaceous animals, to which order the porpoise belongs, I must remark on a very common error held by seaman as well as landsmen, that whales spout out water. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

STRABO, of cetaceous animals in the seas of Ceylon with heads resembling oxen and lions; and this justifies the conjecture that other portions of the same work referring to the island may have been simultaneously borrowed from the same source. ❋ James Emerson Tennent (1836)

Page view page image: in its place, or the heavy breathing of some smaller fish of the cetaceous kind, as it rose to the surface to inhale the atmosphere. ❋ Unknown (1831)

In all the regularly stratified formations, animals of the mammiferous or cetaceous classes are wholly wanting; at least we have no proof that can be relied upon of any having been found in formations which took place prior to the last great deluge, that covered so much of the land with diluvium. ❋ Various (1821)

His cetaceous [sister] was [unappealing]. ❋ QuezBird (2014)