Porpus

The teak coffin, Pughglasspanelfitted, feets to the east, was to turn in later, and pitly patly near the porpus, materially effecting the cause. ❋ Unknown (2006)

“I never would sell dem; I svore I never vood, on porpus to be revenged on dat Stobbs.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

I saw a porpoise -- porpus -- my enormous cousin, all of fifteen feet long, crowd in midst a multitude of swift little swimmers, as if he meant to make them help in spinning him through the water faster than he could go by himself. ❋ Harriet A. Cheever (N/A)

_ -- Aw eese, Thomas; I da mine tha porpus; an I da mine tha udder, an tha milk o'n, too. ❋ James Jennings (N/A)

We've a mist ye iver zunz thic time, when we war at zea-wall, an cut aup tha girt porpus wi 'za many zalmon in hiz belly -- zum o'm look'd vit ta eat as thaw tha wor a bwiled, did'n thâ? ❋ James Jennings (N/A)

There! that sly little fish, like a salt water pickerel, nipped the tail of that great clumsy porpoise -- porpus -- so hard, I heard the big fish grunt. ❋ Harriet A. Cheever (N/A)

Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the porpus how he bounced and tumbled? they say they’re half fish half flesh; a plague on them! they ne’er come but I look to be washed. ❋ Unknown (1914)

Mr. Perry wore orthodox leather boots the clergyman submitted to this infliction and prayed behind them in singular solitude, under mild protest; but when he arose one morning to offer up his regular petition, and beheld the cheerful apparition of Jack Perry's coffins confronting him, "The jolly old bum went under the table like a sick porpus" (as Mr.P. feelingly remarks), "and never shot off his mouth in that shanty again." ❋ Various (1887)

He had taken enough, however, to send him fast asleep in the bottom of the boat, where he lay, as Jerry observed, "like a porpus in a gale of wind." ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

But he wasn't a chap to do a thing without a reason: if he'd been smoakin, I warrant he had smoked to some porpus. ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)

Conseaving, then, that the publication of the Dairy has done reel good on this scoar, and may probly do a deal moor, I shall look through it, for the porpus of selecting the most ellygant passidges, and which I think may be peculiarly adapted to the reader's benefick. ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)

"I never would sell dem; I svore I never vood, on porpus to be revenged on dat Stobbs." ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)

"One day, Stranger, I was a joggin 'along into Windsor on Old Clay, on a sort of butter and eggs' gait (for a fast walk on a journey tires a horse considerable), and who should I see a settin 'straddle legs" on the fence, but Squire Gabriel Soogit, with his coat off, a holdin 'of a hoe in one hand, and his hat in t'other, and a blowin' like a porpus proper tired. ❋ Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1830)

At the end of the fourth month, they had all died except the chief harpooner, a fat porpus of an Englishman, and myself. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

Spring; and, when you imagine her plunging into the pool, you think you hear a porpus. ❋ John Wilson (1819)

Nay, master, said not I as much when I saw the porpus how he bounced and tumbled? they say they're half fish, half flesh: a plague on them, they ne'er come but I look to be washed. ❋ Unknown (1607)

I think tmz do's this on porpus to piss me off because im so fast for most of you but dont hate people, i have that God given talent to out type the rest of you! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Though she has not enough of the porpus, to fill Those dames elephantic that Webb did with skill; ❋ Unknown (1797)

“deres a porpus ryt bhynd us n himz tredin awn mah tayl!” ❋ Unknown (2009)