whalin

Aye, damn him, and damn the Arctic seas, and damn this stinkin 'whalin' ship of his, and damn me for a fool to ever ship on it!

The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920

(_Pointing to the door in rear_) Who but a man that's mad would take his woman -- and as sweet a woman as ever was -- on a stinkin 'whalin' ship to the Arctic seas to be locked in by the rotten ice for nigh on a year, and maybe lose her senses forever -- for it's sure she'll never be the same again.

The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920

'Well,' says I, 'are ye sure ye can get over th' whalin 'ye got whin th' Sarsfield Fife an 'Dhrum Corpse met th' Frederick Willum Picnic

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

Between th 'whalin's we got at school h'isted on th' back iv th 'big boy that was bein' thrainned to be a Christyan brother an 'th' thumpin's we got at home, we was kept sore an 'sthraight fr'm wan year's end to another.

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

I spent a whalin 'voyage once, three years of it, an' paid off with a dollar.

CHAPTER IX 2010

Then there was about forty sealin 'and whalin' ships used to lie up the creek there in the wintertime, and, o 'course, my place here was headquarters for the crews.

Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon 2010

The Sophie Sutherland was in port then, just bein 'fixed up for a whalin' and sealin 'voyage to Japan and the Bering Sea.

Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon 2010

(Soundbite of song, "Rock 'n' Roll Music") Mr. BERRY: (Singing) I took my love on over 'cross the shack so she could hear my man a-whalin 'sax.

Chuck Berry: Father of Rock 'n' Roll 2008

She fished the Alantic, Pacif the reports cover futher north than Mass. only from New York to Mass. but I'd t hink that those ports handled a very large percentage of the ships in the whalin

The Balaena 2000

"It's a curious thing, naow, for the captain and mate of a coaster to be in furrin parts a-whalin '; but we find it pays, -- eh, Sam?"

Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 Various