Even grampuses like Ben Bernanke felt the economy had, at worst, bottomed out. ❋ Zug, James (2009)
A pod of black and white orcas, or “grampuses,” came up close like sightseers. ❋ JOE JACKSON (2003)
A new kind of porpoise appeared, very large and blunt-snouted; some sailors called them “grampuses,” though there was some debate as to what exactly was a grampus. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2000)
Great drifts of seaweed appeared—a sign of land, said the sailors, though no land was sighted, just large numbers of grampuses having terrific fun streaking around, under and between the three ships forging along together. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2000)
"Don't you remember, you mistook those grampuses we came across the other day when going to Seaview for whales?" ❋ John B. [Illustrator] Greene (N/A)
Toptdal River, and was urging his reluctant grampuses up the cataract. ❋ William A. Ross (N/A)
All around us whales and grampuses were gambolling and spouting in vast numbers. ❋ James De Mille (N/A)
On this part of the coast they saw every day whales and grampuses, which often came and dived under the ship, and although the men fired at them several times, the bullets rebounded from their tough skins. ❋ Charles Herbert Sylvester (N/A)
He saw the black fins of the grampuses cutting the water, and thought that they were sharks. ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)
They put their heads under water and came up puffing and blowing like grampuses. ❋ Philip Gibbs (1919)
Round and round the ring they went, both of them puffing and blowing like grampuses. ❋ Hugh Lofting (1916)
We were surrounded far and near by shoals of sluggish whales and grampuses, which the fog prevented our seeing, rising slowly to the surface, or perhaps lying out at length, heaving out those peculiar lazy, deep, and long-drawn breathings which give such an impression of supineness and strength. ❋ Unknown (1909)
That was a mighty dressing-down, attended by three or four blowing grampuses. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
A drove of them are parading the vacant main street; stopping now and then to lay their ponderous muzzles against the closed shutters of a grain-dealer's shops and to blow thereon like grampuses. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)
Fifty white whales surrounded their monarch, and a host of dolphins, grampuses, and porpoises brought up the rear. ❋ George Alfred Townsend (1877)
When we come to add to these enormous marine and terrestrial creatures such other examples as the great snakes, the gigantic cuttle-fish, the grampuses, and manatees, and sea-lions, and sunfish, I am quite prepared fearlessly to challenge any other age that ever existed to enter the lists against our own for colossal forms of animal life. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
The place now filled in the ocean by the whales and grampuses, as well as the place now filled in the great continents by the elephants, the rhinoceroses, the hippopotami, and the other big quadrupeds, was then filled exclusively by huge reptiles, of the sort rendered familiar to us all by the restored effigies on the little island in the Crystal Palace grounds. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
