sea-unicorn

It was made of precious sea-unicorn ivory, fashioned by the Tarnian crafters of Havoc Bay in the far north.

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

Until further information, therefore, I shall maintain it to be a sea-unicorn of colossal dimensions, armed not with a halberd, but with a real spur, as the armoured frigates, or the ‘rams’ of war, whose massiveness and motive power it would possess at the same time.

Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

In reality, it was the tusk of a cetaceous animal inhabiting the northern ocean, and known as the sea-unicorn or narwhal.

Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

The daring assailant I distinguished to be a sword-fish, or sea-unicorn, the knight-errant of the sea, attacking every thing in its domain; his head is as hard and as rough as a rock, out of the centre of which grows horizontally an ivory spear, longer and far tougher than any warrior's lance; with this weapon he fights.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 538, March 17, 1832 Various

The crew of the frigate and the various scientists on board were all eagerness to meet the great cetacean, or sea-unicorn.

The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Various 1910

The mantel-piece was ornamented with some beautiful branches of coral, several large and rare shells, and two horns of the narwhal, or sea-unicorn, fixed against the wall, and above it was the picture of a ship under all sail, with boats hoisted up along her sides, and flags flying at her mastheads and peak.

The Voyage of the "Steadfast" The Young Missionaries in the Pacific William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The sea-unicorn is, when full grown, from thirteen to sixteen feet long, and has a long spiral horn or tusk growing rather on one side of its upper jaw, of from eight to ten feet in length.

Peter the Whaler William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

The elegant spiral horn of the narwhal or sea-unicorn also produces ivory of a superior quality.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 421 Volume 17, New Series, January 24, 1852 Various 1836

Arctic fox skins, musk-ox, and deer skins, with those of the wolf and wolverine, together with sea-horse teeth, and the horn of a sea-unicorn about six feet long for barter at the Company's Post.

The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823. John West 1811

The inflated skin was what the men had been using as the buoy to a harpoon, in the killing of a sea-unicorn.

Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe William Bingley 1798