sea-unicorn

• “Until further information, therefore, I shall maintain it to be a sea-unicorn of colossal dimensions, armed not with a halberd, but with a real spur, as the armoured frigates, or the ‘rams’ of war, whose massiveness and motive power it would possess at the same time.”

  Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

• “It was made of precious sea-unicorn ivory, fashioned by the Tarnian crafters of Havoc Bay in the far north.”

  Conqueror's Moon

• “The daring assailant I distinguished to be a sword-fish, or sea-unicorn, the knight-errant of the sea, attacking every thing in its domain; his head is as hard and as rough as a rock, out of the centre of which grows horizontally an ivory spear, longer and far tougher than any warrior's lance; with this weapon he fights.”

  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 538, March 17, 1832

• “In reality, it was the tusk of a cetaceous animal inhabiting the northern ocean, and known as the sea-unicorn or narwhal.”

  Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery

• “The crew of the frigate and the various scientists on board were all eagerness to meet the great cetacean, or sea-unicorn.”

  The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction

• “The mantel-piece was ornamented with some beautiful branches of coral, several large and rare shells, and two horns of the narwhal, or sea-unicorn, fixed against the wall, and above it was the picture of a ship under all sail, with boats hoisted up along her sides, and flags flying at her mastheads and peak.”

  The Voyage of the "Steadfast" The Young Missionaries in the Pacific

• “The sea-unicorn is, when full grown, from thirteen to sixteen feet long, and has a long spiral horn or tusk growing rather on one side of its upper jaw, of from eight to ten feet in length.”

  Peter the Whaler

• “The elegant spiral horn of the narwhal or sea-unicorn also produces ivory of a superior quality.”

  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 421 Volume 17, New Series, January 24, 1852

• “Arctic fox skins, musk-ox, and deer skins, with those of the wolf and wolverine, together with sea-horse teeth, and the horn of a sea-unicorn about six feet long for barter at the Company's Post.”

  The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823.

• “The inflated skin was what the men had been using as the buoy to a harpoon, in the killing of a sea-unicorn.”

  Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe

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