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Monochrome, with the greyness of the landscape itself, and covered with hints and gifts, here a dolmen, there a blow-hole.
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Monochrome, with the greyness of the landscape itself, and covered with hints and gifts, here a dolmen, there a blow-hole.
A Different Stripe: 2009
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Monochrome, with the greyness of the landscape itself, and covered with hints and gifts, here a dolmen, there a blow-hole.
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In extreme conditions, an animal might be located by the sight of its steamy breath rising from a blow-hole.
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‘On the blow-hole of the porpoise’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 138, 117–23.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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In an 1845 communication to the Royal Society, which Darwin, as a Fellow, would quite likely have read, Francis Sibson Esq.* wrote: ‘The muscles that open and close the blow-hole, and that act upon the various sacs, form one of the most complicated yet most exquisitely adjusted pieces of machinery that either nature or art presents.’
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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As in, a large, concrete-type whale with a functioning blow-hole?
Cheeseburger Gothic » School holidays finally caught up up with me. (Now with comments!) 2009
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‘On the blow-hole of the porpoise’, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 138, 117–23.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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In an 1845 communication to the Royal Society, which Darwin, as a Fellow, would quite likely have read, Francis Sibson Esq.* wrote: ‘The muscles that open and close the blow-hole, and that act upon the various sacs, form one of the most complicated yet most exquisitely adjusted pieces of machinery that either nature or art presents.’
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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Here it is in a nutshell: Dems are against oil because their nutjob, wacked-out leftist guerrillas, the environmentalists, are a little off their rocker because they don't understand that the real threat to our global climate is methane from cows and Al Gore's bloviating blow-hole!
McCain's Campaign Contribution Ponzi-esque Scheme Unraveling Ellen Beth Gill 2008
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