Phoca

Then returning, half-smiling at his own pettishness, he said, ` ` Get thee into the house, Edie, and remember my counsel, never speak to me about a mine, nor to my nephew Hector about a phoca, that is ❋ Unknown (1845)

Hector about a phoca, that is a sealgh, as you call it.” ❋ Unknown (1584)

Next evening, as he was returning home by the strand, he spied a male and female phoca sprawling on a rock a few yards out at sea. ❋ ERIN HART (2010)

Yet why should not the solemn visaged, double-chinned phoca partake of one of the most universal habits of animal life -- the love of frolic? ❋ Various (N/A)

He was with difficulty appeased, but I saw he never forgot the dead horse, any more than the Antiquary's nephew the "phoca or seal." ❋ Unknown (1903)

I may remind English readers that [Greek] (i.e. phoca) means "seal." ❋ 750? BC-650? BC Homer (1868)

` ` Well, my dear, '' answered Oldbuck, propitiated by the compliment, ` ` I will rein in my satire, and, if possible, speak no more of the _phoca_ --- I will not even speak of sealing a letter, but say umph, and give a nod to you when I want the wax-light ❋ Unknown (1845)

` ` One of the herd of Proteus, '' said the Antiquary --- ` ` a phoca, or seal, lying asleep on the beach. '' ❋ Unknown (1845)

Antiquary's perpetual harping upon the story of the phoca. ❋ Unknown (1845)

His noddle is running on a curricle, which he has neither money to buy, nor skill to drive if he had it; and I assure your lordship, that the possession of two such quadrupeds would prove a greater scrape than any of his duels, whether with human foe or with my friend the _phoca. _ '' ❋ Unknown (1845)

I saw him to-day engage in an animated contest with a phoca, or seal (sealgh, our people more properly call them, retaining the Gothic guttural gh), with as much vehemence as if he had fought against Dumourier ❋ Unknown (1845)

A messenger, Hector, is a worse foe than a phoca, whether it be the phoca barbata, or the phoca vitulina of your late conflict. '' ❋ Unknown (1845)

` ` My uncle is the best man in the world, and in his way the kindest; but rather than hear any more about that cursed phoca, as he is pleased to call it, I would exchange for the ❋ Unknown (1845)

` ` The devil take the seal, sir, or phoca, if you choose to call it so! ❋ Unknown (1845)

Nay, never start off at a jest, man --- I have done with the _phoca_ --- though, I dare say, the ❋ Unknown (1845)

Could you meet but with a martial phoca, instead of an unwarlike heath-bird. '' ❋ Unknown (1845)

--- Marry, my lord, the phoca had the better, as the said Dumourier had of some other folks. ❋ Unknown (1845)

“Oh whos that?” “That’s [Phocas]. Don’t mess with them or you’ll either be their best friend or [worst] [enemy].” ❋ Penislover662 (2021)