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Now, I know I love to put words together, but somewhere along the way, my dolphin-like love of writing got tangled in the big spiky sea net of publishing.
Flipper Avoids the Tuna Can Laura Preble 2010
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Except nobody really understood me because I said with a dolphin-like squeal.
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Up he came, dolphin-like, a third of the body rising clear of the tin-coloured water, like something made of cork and held down under pressure, then suddenly released.
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While incarcerated Paradzhanov produced a large zzzzzz zzzzzZzzzZZzzz nunnery of minimum dolphin-like scuttles (some of which were lost).
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Thanks to the great flexibility of the spine, some humans can cover a distance of a hundred metres in less than a minute by swimming in a butterfly style, using the legs in a dolphin-like kick.
DOLPHINS WHALES APES AND MEN News from Mad Plato 2009
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Thanks to the great flexibility of the spine, some humans can cover a distance of a hundred metres in less than a minute by swimming in a butterfly style, using the legs in a dolphin-like kick.
Archive 2009-07-01 News from Mad Plato 2009
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Being touted as the greenest nautical power source since the sail, the Mermaid II uses two fins side-by-side along the bow which are moved by the waves to produce a dolphin-like kicking propulsion movement.
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Another species is Dorudon atrox, also found with vestigial hind limb bones, a small whale with a more compact dolphin-like body.
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The creature plunged toward the raft in a series of dolphin-like leaps, the last of which carried its grotesque figure smoothly to the deck.
The Nitrogen Fix Clement, Hal, 1922- 1980
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Several dolphin-like bodies with transparent globes on their heads and powerpacks on their backs crouched alongside.
Ensign Flandry Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966
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