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  • They fence with their long lower jaws, sometimes locking them together, and so striving for the supremacy like elks that warringly interweave their antlers.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • My mother amused me sometimes by telling me how she had written warringly to this noted critic (a cherished acquaintance), when he had printed a disquisition upon "Monte Beni" which did not hit the bull's-eye.

    Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888

  • They fence with their long lower jaws, sometimes locking them together, and so striving for the supremacy like elks that warringly interweave their antlers.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • They fence with their long lower jaws, sometimes locking them together, and so striving for the supremacy like elks that warringly interweave their antlers.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • They fence with their long lower jaws, sometimes locking them together, and so striving for the supremacy like elks that warringly interweave their antlers.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

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