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  • In 1524, for example, the Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazano sailed La Dauphine into Casco Bay, in present-day Maine, and came across Indians "clothed in the skins of bear, lynx, sea-wolf, and other animals."

    'Fur, Fortune, and Empire' 2010

  • The grampus, or sea-wolf, was another article of food which bears testimony to the coarse palate of the early Englishman, and at the same time may afford a clue to the partiality for disguising condiments and spices.

    Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

  • He was a man of fifty, a sort of sea-wolf, with big eyes,

    Around the World in 80 Days 2003

  • So bare then that sea-wolf when she came unto bottom

    The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats Anonymous

  • After an indecisive battle with the giant, and a fierce struggle with the giant's mother, who attacks him in the guise of a sea-wolf, he kills her, and then destroys Grendel.

    English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

  • The first passage (v. 1599 (b) -1600) I translate literally: _Then many agreed upon this (namely), that the sea-wolf had killed him_.

    Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Lesslie [Translator] Hall

  • It is true that his sovereignty was precarious, that it was maintained at the edge of the sword; none the less, in that welter of anarchy in which he lived he had forced himself to the summit, and, pirate, sea-wolf, and robber as he was, we cannot withhold from him a meed of the most hearty admiration.

    Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

  • This tender friend, who had opened his soul to the boys as if they had been his equals, was at the same time an old sea-wolf and revolutionary, a true hero, like those of the most marvellous f airy-tales.

    My Life Trotsky, Leon 1930

  • Peyrol, old gunner, you horrid sea-wolf, be an angel and tell me where he is. ''

    The Rover 1923

  • Most common of all is the kind of sea-wolf known as the Killer Whale, who measures 30 feet long.

    The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922

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