sperm-whale

The things people accumulated -- old pictures and pewter, jade and carved ivory and ugly-faced masks and books and tapestries and large yellow sperm-whale teeth scored with scrimshaw, silver platters and spoons and sugar tongs, the incidental and ill-assorted objects that were supposed to have value -- all of it was merely borrowed from the vast store of the world's artifacts and ultimately returned to it, sold, bequeathed, lost, stolen.

Beard 2010

Rendell is a specialist in sperm-whale vocalization and learning patterns of sperm whales.

Wired Top Stories 2009

Rendell is a specialist in sperm-whale vocalization and learning patterns of sperm whales.

Wired - Hidden Whale Culture Could Be Critical to Species Survival William Harryman 2009

And Calgene is actually attempting the seeming miracle of transplanting into the canola plant the gene that makes sperm-whale oil, a useful and precious lubricant.

Splashing In The Gene Pool 2008

And Calgene is actually attempting the seeming miracle of transplanting into the canola plant the gene that makes sperm-whale oil, a useful and precious lubricant.

Splashing In The Gene Pool 2008

A Canadian Eskimo set from about 1920 carved from sperm-whale teeth has knights as dolphins and rooks as Arctic hares (estimate: $2,380-$3,173).

Collecting: Knight Moves 2008

Yet, owing to the long priority of his claims, and the profound ignorance which till some seventy years back, invested the then fabulous or utterly unknown sperm-whale, and which ignorance to this present day still reigns in all but some few scientific retreats and whale-ports; this usurpation has been every way complete.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Until the early 1970s, sperm-whale oil was a common ingredient in high-quality lubricants.

5 Uses 1985

While thus engaged I was startled by seeing an enormous cachelot, (the sperm-whale), suddenly break the water within fifteen yards of the boat.

The Island Home Richard Archer

He spoke of the number of traders that frequent the islands, for tortoise-shell, mother-of-pearl, sandal-wood, beche de mer, etcetera; the whalers that come in pursuit of the cachelot, or sperm-whale; the vessels that resort there for fruit, or supplies of wood and water; the vast number of islands scattered through these seas; from all which he finally concluded, that the chances were largely in our favour.

The Island Home Richard Archer