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  • Here huge sea-lions hauled themselves up to lie in the sun or battle with one another.

    Page 4 2010

  • Make it plain in thy mind of as many sea-lions as there be waves to the sea, and make it plain that all these sea-lions be made into one sea-lion, and as that one sea-lion would bellow so bellowed the thing I heard.

    NAM-BOK THE UNVERACIOUS 2010

  • Meanwhile however, in 2000, 12 sea-lions and in June 2001, 35 more were destroyed for parts considered aphrodisiac in the Far East.

    Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador 2009

  • Although he could not see through walls, he got the smells he was later to identify of lions, leopards, monkeys, baboons, and seals and sea-lions.

    CHAPTER XXV 2010

  • Make it plain in thy mind of as many sea-lions as there be waves to the sea, and make it plain that all these sea-lions be made into one sea-lion, and as that one sea-lion would bellow so bellowed the thing I heard.

    Nam-Bok, the Unveracious 2010

  • And close at hand, in the white waste of shore-lashed waters, the sea-lions, bellowing their old primeval chant, hauled up out of the sea on the black rocks and fought and loved.

    Page 5 2010

  • On their tops sprawled huge sea-lions tawny-wet and roaring in the sun, while overhead, uttering shrill cries, darted and wheeled a multitude of sea birds.

    CHAPTER VII 2010

  • In the afternoon Jim Hazard and Hall dived into the breakers and swam to the outlying rocks, routing the protesting sea-lions and taking possession of their surf-battered stronghold.

    CHAPTER VIII 2010

  • From the many descriptions of sea mammals mating, it seems that always happens face to face, with exception of seals and sea-lions when they are on the shore.

    DOLPHINS WHALES APES AND MEN News from Mad Plato 2009

  • The dugong and the manatee are the descendants of vegetarian hoofed animals; seals, sea-lions and walruses are the descendants of carnivorous animals; beavers are the cousins of purely terrestrial rodents.

    DOLPHINS WHALES APES AND MEN News from Mad Plato 2009

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