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Definition of Whale
Whale
Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.


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Whale Quotations
The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.
Dave Barry

He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
Herman Melville

A whale ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
Herman Melville

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The whale is endangered, while the ant continues to do just fine.
Bill Vaughan

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.
William Jennings Bryan

My commitment is to my kids and my mum and I'm having a whale of a time.
Carol Vorderman


We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us.
Bill Condon

My wife says I'm making a noise like a stranded whale. I think I have a major snoring problem.
Rex Hunt

There's no question that Whale's movies are classics. They were wonderful, and successful.
Bill Condon

I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.
Bill Condon

We knew that there was a certain kind of interest in Whale among a genre crowd.
Bill Condon

We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.
John Hope

More Whale Quotations

Whale Translations
whale in Afrikaans is walvis
whale in Danish is hval
whale in Dutch is walvis
whale in Finnish is valas
whale in French is baleine
whale in German is Wal, Wal, Wals
whale in Italian is balena
whale in Latin is balaena
whale in Norwegian is hval
whale in Portuguese is baleia
whale in Spanish is ballena
whale in Swedish is val






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