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1. Its three black masts dominated the bay of Dorini like primed Harpoon missiles locked onto a delicate conservation sanctuary
2. “Nice!” The Elf praised and aimed the harpoon at the likeliest target on the vessel in front of them: the nearest nacelle
3. disk or in memory, and the third element was the killer, the harpoon, firing a few small items of trash code into those sectors and corrupting them
4. hour by the rope attached to the harpoon
5. clear of the harpoon rope line when the sleigh ride begins, as he could get rope burns and be dragged overboard by the whale
6. boatsteerer was the person who put the first harpoon into a
7. Once a harpoon or two was securely fastened in the whale’s
8. With a poisoned harpoon
9. of harpoon zingers came to mind
10. Cold water sprayed up on both sides as the prow cut through the water like a harpoon
11. The invention of the explosive harpoon gun in the 1860's,
12. The harpoon gun was convenient
13. Two minutes later Ambrosius was in the jolly boat, harpoon in hand, along with Stan, Mungo and Fishmael
14. Mungo was at the front of the boat, clearing the weed out the way with the end of his harpoon, with Stan at the back trying to untangle the rudder
15. Ambrosius shrugged, then, with a javelin-throwers technique, launched his harpoon at the fish
16. ” Fishmael threw his harpoon, but his throw was nowhere near as powerful as Ambrosius', falling more than thirty metres short
17. Fishmael sank to his knees and dragged the harpoon, now attached to a mass of slimy green weed, back into the boat
18. His eyes moved to the harpoon in his hand, then to Stan
19. Fishmael lobbed the harpoon at the fish, but he was weak with hunger and it fell short, disappearing down into the mist to one side until the rope caught tight
20. Fishmael hauled the harpoon back on board, clearly exhausted by the effort but driven by the hatred that burned in his boiler rooms
21. Lightning flashed and the harpoon shot from an arm that seemed moved by Thor himself
22. Fishmael's jolly boat, tiny in comparison to the house-sized fish, skittered across the waves as she tried to propel herself away, the rope from the harpoon pinging as it took the strain
23. The fish thrashed frantically, flipping feistily, flopping ferociously, floridly fighting for freedom from the harpoon
24. The fish bucked and brayed, but she could not shake the cruel harpoon from its side
25. The fish swam round the main ship, bringing the harpoon line round the mast
26. Round and round the mast the fish swam, until the harpoon line was well and truly secured to the mainmast
27. A harpoon barely missed Carla, clanging against the steel plating of the wreck
28. The four Harpoon anti-ship missiles stored in their launch boxes above the engine room sympathetically detonated as well from the blast wave of the explosion, adding the force of four 500 pound warheads and four solid propellant rocket engines
29. On the third day at ‘Sweet Dreams’, she told Pierre that she was going to go fishing at a nearby beach, leaving with a young black boy carrying a harpoon, a fishing net and a large haversack containing only a water bottle and a loaf of bread, plus a knife
30. His sinewy muscles flexed suddenly and there was a flash of sunlight across his makeshift harpoon blade
31. When he opened his eyes again, his brother was holding his harpoon up with a skewered fish on the end
32. " Alex threw the harpoon into the water and squared up to his brother
33. Alex dropped his harpoon and lunged at his brother, the two crashed into the water and struggled together, wrestling in silence
34. He had to harpoon it, carve it up in smaller pieces and tug the pieces out to sea
35. I’d already started making a weapon out of the two seat belts that were next to me to try and make a release mechanism for my harpoon that I had fashioned from my parker pen, a length of rope and the seat belt releasers
36. He had fallen into my trap the harpoon may have missed Harry but it had gone into the upholstery on his right and ricocheted into the seat belt holster on his left side
37. No one recognizes him, but he was impaled by an enemy harpoon
38. Aazuria saw it then—a blonde woman swung her arm back and launched a harpoon at someone on the boat
39. He was stabbed in the chest with a harpoon, much like they tried to do to me…”
40. There was a large gash just under her ear from where a harpoon had nicked her, but the beautiful thing about a harpoon was that once it was thrown, the attacker was rendered defenseless and open
41. It was sudden and efficient, and the dog had suffered only briefly, having taken the harpoon to the chest
42. Suddenly, for no apparent reason, he jumped up and plunged his harpoon into the crest of a wave
43. When he woke up, marvel of marvels, the canoe was resting amongst the branches of a pine tree, and the wave, into which he had flung his harpoon, had become a mountain
44. The harpoon then flew out of the mountain, and plunged into yet another wave which, once more, became mountain
45. But the harpoon didn't stop there; it flew far up into the sky, to a place where ordinary mortals cannot see it, but shamans can
46. Something that looked like a small harpoon shot through the open sunroof and lodged itself into the dash
47. Talaric reached out and snapped several clips on my harness to the thin cable attached to the harpoon lodged in the dash
48. Harpoon the great white whale
49. They’d harpoon us to a standstill and board us at will
50. A giant harpoon plowed into the water where the Celestia’s prize had just been before it had made its turn back to center
1. His four limbs however were harpooned in a
2. It took a few moments of fast disappearing rope during which time Flynn almost saw Ortega harpooned
3. In midocean it's not unusual to encounter whales so sound asleep they can successfully be attacked, and Ned Land had harpooned more than one in its slumber
4. Another harpooned the guardhouse
5. Every one knows the fine story of Perseus and Andromeda; how the lovely Andromeda, the daughter of a king, was tied to a rock on the sea-coast, and as Leviathan was in the very act of carrying her off, Perseus, the prince of whalemen, intrepidly advancing, harpooned the monster, and delivered and married the maid
6. Erskine was on the other side; and he then supported it by saying, that though the gentleman had originally harpooned the lady, and had once had her fast, and only by reason of the great stress of her plunging viciousness, had at last abandoned her; yet abandon her he did, so that she became a loose-fish; and therefore when a subsequent gentleman re-harpooned her, the lady then became that subsequent gentleman's property, along with whatever harpoon might have been found sticking in her
7. Be it distinctly recorded here, that the Nantucketers were the first among mankind to harpoon with civilized steel the great Sperm Whale; and that for half a century they were the only people of the whole globe who so harpooned him
8. But as perhaps fifty of these whale-bone whales are harpooned for one cachalot, some philosophers of the forecastle have concluded that this positive havoc has already very seriously diminished their battalions
1. But why not? And so they went to the mosque after a day at the reef snorkelling and harpooning
2. "Every animal may be overstating it, but in truth I doubt we could keep our Canadian friend from harpooning some of these magnificent cetaceans
3. Harpooning flitches and hindquarters out of it
4. Challenger and Summerlee had gone off together that day to the lake where some of the natives, under their direction, were engaged in harpooning specimens of the great lizards
5. So I kept hammering away with the sailor falling from the mast, the sea becalmed, the arrival of the Whale, the almost-deaths of Queequeg and Ishmael, the lowering, the pursuit, the harpooning, the roping of Ahab to the Beast, the plunge, the death, and Ahab arisen, dead, beckoning from the side of the Whale for his men to follow, follow
6. I was watching to see where he kept his razor, when lo and behold, he takes the harpoon from the bed corner, slips out the long wooden stock, unsheathes the head, whets it a little on his boot, and striding up to the bit of mirror against the wall, begins a vigorous scraping, or rather harpooning of his cheeks
7. Some fifty years ago there was a curious case of whale-trover litigated in England, wherein the plaintiffs set forth that after a hard chase of a whale in the Northern seas; and when indeed they (the plaintiffs) had succeeded in harpooning the fish; they were at last, through peril of their lives, obliged to forsake not only their lines, but their boat itself
8. Suppose a perfectly sure shot, and that the harpoon should be fastened in the bow, is it possible that the rope to which the torpedo is attached would not be cut, and the torpedo left to float below perfectly harmless? Do gentlemen consider harpooning a vessel to be like harpooning a whale, which has no men on board of it to take out the harpoon? I cannot bring myself to believe it possible that a crew on board a ship could see all around her, and yet permit a torpedo to be attached to her and place her in such a condition as to be liable to be totally destroyed with every person on board
1. Archimedes had never seen a humpback whale die from harpoons before and so added it to his memory files
2. Not a moment later, the harpoons and the cables flashed electric blue and seemed to sizzle hotter than a melting pot
3. A harpoons hook
4. Jai and Ceder burst out of the waves like two harpoons, flinging themselves over the side of the boat and dragging themselves aboard, panting and shivering
5. When they were not aloft Ambrosius and Stan also helped out by performing various duties such as swabbing the deck, taking soundings, feeding the petrels and, at Fishmael's insistence, sharpening the harpoons every twelve hours
6. My order is this: keep those harpoons sharp as sixpence, for who knows, the fish may come to gloat and then we can dart at it
7. Near the village, the big majestic river Horkati is ever flowing throughout the year, where the village folks were fishing everyday with their sailing boats, weal baits, fishing nets and harpoons
8. They were armed with front mounted machine guns and rear facing harpoons cannons that made them look as formidable as any warplane
9. Ortega looked back at Flynn in alarm and Flynn nodded, as he registered the threat of the harpoons
10. Flynn fought his way back up to his feet, only to see more harpoons coming
11. These harpoons have no anchor ropes attached to them
12. Harpoons whizzed past him, but he didn’t seem to care
13. Harpoons used for hunting whales are usually attached to a very long rope that pays out quickly when the wounded animal drags it with him
14. Commander Bouguer approached the animal and attacked it with blows from harpoons and blasts from rifles, but without much success because bullets and harpoons crossed its soft flesh as if it were semiliquid jelly
15. "And harpoons, sir," the Canadian said, "if you don't turn down
16. At last we were getting something positive, and yet it seemed a long gap between an absconding banker and Captain Peter Carey pinned against the wall with one of his own harpoons
17. I asked him why he carried such a troublesome thing with him ashore, and whether all whaling ships did not find their own harpoons
18. Hence, the spare boats, spare spars, and spare lines and harpoons, and spare everythings, almost, but a spare Captain and duplicate ship
19. Then ranging them before him near the capstan, with their harpoons in their hands, while his three mates stood at his side with their lances, and the rest of the ship's company formed a circle round the group; he stood for an instant searchingly eyeing every man of his crew
20. It is a thing well known to both American and English whale-ships, and as well a thing placed upon authoritative record years ago by Scoresby, that some whales have been captured far north in the Pacific, in whose bodies have been found the barbs of harpoons darted in the Greenland seas
21. In the instance where three years intervened between the flinging of the two harpoons; and I think it may have been something more than that; the man who darted them happening, in the interval, to go in a trading ship on a voyage to Africa, went ashore there, joined a discovery party, and penetrated far into the interior, where he travelled for a period of nearly two years, often endangered by serpents, savages, tigers, poisonous miasmas, with all the other common perils incident to wandering in the heart of unknown regions
22. The half-emptied line-tub floats on the whitened sea; the wooden poles of the spilled harpoons obliquely bob in it; the heads of the swimming crew are scattered about the whale in contrasting expressions of affright; while in the black stormy distance the ship is bearing down upon the scene
23. The harpoons and lances lie levelled for use; three oarsmen are just setting the mast in its hole; while from a sudden roll of the sea, the little craft stands half-erect out of the water, like a rearing horse
24. With a frigate's anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of harpoons for spurs, would I could mount that whale and leap the topmost skies, to see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really lie encamped beyond my mortal sight!
25. It is customary to have two harpoons reposing in the crotch, respectively called the first and second irons
26. But these two harpoons, each by its own cord, are both connected with the line; the object being this: to dart them both, if possible, one instantly after the other into the same whale; so that if, in the coming drag, one should draw out, the other may still retain a hold
27. For, of course, each boat is supplied with several harpoons to bend on to the line should the first one be ineffectually darted without recovery
28. But as the stumps of harpoons are frequently found in the dead bodies of captured whales, with the flesh perfectly healed around them, and no prominence of any kind to denote their place; therefore, there must needs have been some other unknown reason in the present case fully to account for the ulceration alluded to
29. And when those defendants were remonstrated with, their captain snapped his fingers in the plaintiffs' teeth, and assured them that by way of doxology to the deed he had done, he would now retain their line, harpoons, and boat, which had remained attached to the whale at the time of the seizure
30. Wherefore the plaintiffs now sued for the recovery of the value of their whale, line, harpoons, and boat
31. These pleadings, and the counter pleadings, being duly heard, the very learned Judge in set terms decided, to wit,—That as for the boat, he awarded it to the plaintiffs, because they had merely abandoned it to save their lives; but that with regard to the controverted whale, harpoons, and line, they belonged to the defendants; the whale, because it was a Loose-Fish at the time of the final capture; and the harpoons and line because when the fish made off with them, it (the fish) acquired a property in those articles; and hence anybody who afterwards took the fish had a right to them
32. "And harpoons sticking in near his starboard fin
33. Whether owing to the almost omniscient look-outs at the mast-heads of the whaleships, now penetrating even through Behring's straits, and into the remotest secret drawers and lockers of the world; and the thousand harpoons and lances darted along all continental coasts; the moot point is, whether Leviathan can long endure so wide a chase, and so remorseless a havoc; whether he must not at last be exterminated from the waters, and the last whale, like the last man, smoke his last pipe, and then himself evaporate in the final puff
34. Often he would be surrounded by an eager circle, all waiting to be served; holding boat-spades, pike-heads, harpoons, and lances, and jealously watching his every sooty movement, as he toiled
35. Caught and twisted—corkscrewed in the mazes of the line, loose harpoons and lances, with all their bristling barbs and points, came flashing and dripping up to the chocks in the bows of Ahab's boat
36. Some sprained shoulders, wrists, and ankles; livid contusions; wrenched harpoons and lances; inextricable intricacies of rope; shattered oars and planks; all these were there; but no fatal or even serious ill seemed to have befallen any one
37. From the ship's bows, nearly all the seamen now hung inactive; hammers, bits of plank, lances, and harpoons, mechanically retained in their hands, just as they had darted from their various employments; all their enchanted eyes intent upon the whale, which from side to side strangely vibrating his predestinating head, sent a broad band of overspreading semicircular foam before him as he rushed
38. As to setting these machines afloat, firing harpoons into vessels, calculating the chance of boats getting away when a single shot may send them to the bottom, I have no opinion of it at all
