At first this only spurred the creature to further endeavors; but the steady pull soon told, and, after an amount of labor that can only be compared to sawing a cord of wood with a dull implement, the white head of the Beluga came in sight.
The oil is in constant demand for delicate machinery, and Beluga leather, made from the tanned hide, is manufactured into a great variety of articles of necessity and luxury.
The Beluga has a wide geographical range, being found upon our northern and northwestern shores in great numbers.
The Beluga is a toothed whale, in contradistinction to those that are supplied with the whalebone-like arrangement that characterizes the right whales: consequently its food consists of fish and perhaps squid.
Beluga rose in front of the boat, clearing the water in a graceful leap.
Externally, besides its colour, the Beluga is remarkable for possessing a distinct neck, which is correlated of course with the freedom of the cervical vertebrae, and is also seen in Platanistidae.
The two last-named genera have separate cervical vertebrae, and in the Beluga at any rate this is expressed externally by a quite distinct neck.
The Beluga has a voice; but the name "Sea Canary" is hardly suitable to it.
The genus Delphinapterus, the Beluga or White Whale, consists of but a single species, though as usual more than one name has been given to supposed different species.
Like the other medium-sized whale in the same region, the beluga or white whale, the narwhal has no dorsal fin.
Note the robust form and the small head of this swimming beluga off northwestern Alaska.
Ventral view of a belugaharpooned in the northeastern Canadian Eskimo Fishery.
Furthermore, the body of the beluga is more robust.
Hooper[N338] says that at this place the beluga must always be struck with a flint spear, even if it has been killed by a rifle shot.
The beluga or white whale is only casually pursued, and as far as I could learn is always shot with the rifle.
Skins of the narwhal or beluga are no longer mentioned as important articles of trade.
The stout thongs of the hide of the bearded seal, walrus, or belugaare usually made in the winter and stretched to dry between posts of whales' bones set up in the village, about breast high.
Lastly, Van Beneden points to certain filiform worms found by Pallas in the cavity of the ear of Beluga leucas as probably representing another distinct species of nematode, which he designates Strongylus Pallasii.
It was useful for casting stones into the ocean to frighten and drive the beluga into the nets set for that purpose.
The beluga was afterward killed at the mouth of the Mackenzie River, it having towed the body considerably more than one thousand miles.
Also applied to the beluga or white whale (Beluga leucas), a cetacean found in the Arctic seas and the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
The harpooned beluga will make off at full speed dragging in his wake the assailant's boat which flies over the face of the water, boiling with the mighty strokes of the monster's tail.
The harpoon is sometimes thrown at thebeluga from a considerable distance.
A skilful man will quickly strike some vital spot; otherwise the beluga struggles long.
The 'Porpoise' (Beluga or White Whale) Fishery on the St. Lawrence.
Sometimes the beluga makes a noise like the half suppressed lowing of oxen and, since the aquatic world is so silent, sailors have christened the beluga, for this slender achievement, the "sea canary.
Jacques Cartier saw the beluga disporting itself off Malbaie nearly 400 years ago and in summer it is still to be seen there almost daily.
The "Porpoise" (Beluga or White Whale) Fishery on the St. Lawrence.
At high tide the beluga comes rushing in near to shore after his prey, sometimes in water so shallow that his whole body comes into view.
The beluga is peculiar to northern regions where the water is cold: when one is seen at the mouth of an English river it is a subject of special note.
Soon the water is red for each beluga sheds eight or ten gallons of blood.
The White Whale (Beluga catodon) is the whale which Dr.
The Belugagives us the best shoe-strings in the world.
You can lace your shoes with a Beluga lace for two years and be sure it will not break the morning you are in an especial hurry to catch an inter-Reuben train.
As the four fingers dropped into the sea they changed respectively into beluga the white whale, nutchook the common seal, oog-zook the big seal, and ibyl the walrus.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beluga" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
