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You remember being human, what the poet said about death and the narwhal's horn.
Mermaid 2010
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Still, comparing and contrasting David Mitchell and Robert Webb's concept of home with that of the narwhal's is not without worth, it's just that its worth is £106.52? the cover price of a single issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, in which his essay appeared?
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Nweeia has discovered that the narwhal's tooth has hydrodynamic sensor capabilities.
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The aborigines went back quietly to their labor in the afternoon, and the boys who were at work with the miner, laying out the foundation for the sawmill, took occasion in the intervals of their labor to tell Swiftwater the story of the narwhal's horn, and the incident that had taken place at noon.
The Boy Scouts on the Yukon Ralph Victor
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The rest was made up of a miscellaneous collection of ivory -- narwhal's horns and tusks of the walrus -- all weighing about five hundred pounds.
The Boy Scouts on the Yukon Ralph Victor
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At one place they visited a museum that contained three of the gigantic ivory tusks of the mammoth of which they had read a good deal since finding the narwhal's horn.
The Boy Scouts on the Yukon Ralph Victor
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Of the narwhal's horn he refused to talk, and his wound having been dressed he was placed on the balsam boughs in the shack.
The Boy Scouts on the Yukon Ralph Victor
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So Edred, very glad and proud, went hand in hand with Sir Walter Raleigh to his apartments, and saw many strange things from overseas – dresses of feathers from Mexico, and strange images in gold from strange islands, and the tip of a narwhal's horn from Greenland, and many other things.
The House of Arden Edith 1923
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One of the early travelers, Sir John de Mandeville or Marco Polo, I forget which, brought back a narwhal's tusk which, he had been told, had been taken from a kind of horse.
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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You know the unicorn is always represented with a narwhal's tusk?
The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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