sea-calf

That devil of a sea-calf is the cause of all this storm, and is the only man who doth not lend a helping hand.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

That devil of a sea-calf is the cause of all this storm, and is the only man who doth not lend a helping hand.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

"Why, what a precious old sea-calf I am!" he said at last, wiping his cheeks.

Treasure Island 1883

"Why, what a precious old sea-calf I am!" he said, at last, wiping his cheeks.

Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

She scooped hiding-places for us in the sand, and made us lie down therein, and cast the skin of a sea-calf over each of us.

The Story of the Odyssey Alfred John Church 1870

"Mangu-Khan is a man of middle height with a flat nose; he was lying on a couch clad in a robe of bright fur, which was speckled like the skin of a sea-calf."

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World Jules Verne 1866

The natives aver that, when night comes, from out the bottomless depth of some lagoon the Bunyip rises, and, in form like monstrous sea-calf, drags his loathsome length from out the ooze.

Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon Adam Lindsay Gordon 1851

Far hence she beholds Cephisus, [67] lamenting the fate of his grandson, changed by Apollo into a bloated sea-calf; and the house of Eumelus, [68] lamenting his son in the air.

The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847

Hearing that a manati (the sea-calf) bad been taken at the mouth of the Cabrita River, and was kept alive at the Hope Wharf, I got a sailing-boat and went about eight miles to see the animal.

Journal of a Residence among the Negroes in the West Indies Matthew Gregory 1845

They are then much better kept than in the winter; for they have the remains of the whale and sea-calf, which their masters disdain to eat.

The Dog William Youatt 1811