When the old home at the Bowheadwas displaced by the Assembly Hall, and its lofty spire was in process of erection, he made friends with the contractor, and I accompanied him in more than one ascent.
The removal of Mr. Thomas Nelson’s book-store to the picturesque tenement at the Bowhead marks the first progressive step of the young innovator.
It was in just such another luckenbooth at the Bowhead that Mr. Thomas Nelson originated the business which has since developed into such great proportions.
Thus prosecuted, the business gradually expanded until the Bowhead establishment was no longer sufficient for the accommodation required.
Among those who thus migrated from the Castle Hill to Hope Park, one claims special attention as a relic of the original Bowhead establishment.
Since then nearly all the antique historical mansions of the Castle Hill and the adjoiningBowhead have disappeared.
The old Bowhead land had an interest of its own, apart from its singular picturesqueness as an example of the civic architecture of older centuries.
These changes were made because the blubber of the bowhead is so thick that ordinary harpoons will not penetrate beyond it to the muscle, which, unless they do, renders them liable to draw, upon a heavy strain.
This first bowhead yielded us eighteen tuns of oil and a ton of baleen, which made the catch about equal in value to that of a seven-tun cachalot.
It was on the ninth or tenth morning after our arrival on the grounds that a bowhead was raised, And two boats sent after him.
As it happened, however, I lost no excitement by remaining on board; for while all the boats were away a large bowhead rose near the ship, evidently being harassed in some way by enemies, which I could not at first see.
The Bowhead that we have come up to the Arctic to see feeds on the smallest infusoria.
Unless the Circumpolar Bowhead is to become extinct within a decade, the thinking world should strengthen the hands of the Canadian authorities in an effort to put a close season for four or five years on the great Arctic Baleen Whale.
The first Bowhead taken from these waters went in 1891 to the American steam-whaler Grampus, her catch for three seasons being twenty-one whales.
The whaler drawn by oily lure followed theBowhead east and north from Bering Sea.
The Bowhead is hunted for his "whalebone"; the Cachalot or true Sperm, the lord of the toothed whales, for that great lake of sperm oil and spermaceti which he carries round in a portable tank in the top of his head.
Off the delta of the Mackenzie, the Circumpolar of Arctic Bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) is making his last stand.
The Bowhead whale has within recent years chosen for his summer habitat the pleasant waters off Arctic Canada.
We have seen them, a pack of hungry sea-wolves, surround a Bowhead whale!
The lips of a Bowhead whale are from fifteen to twenty feet in length and yield from one to two tons of pure oil each,--lips that turn a nigger-minstrel green with envy!
Room eight-seven, Clay street, the Bowhead Lodging House, you know the place, entrance just around the corner from the Bowhead Saloon.
And before he went to his late lunch, Doctor Emory was away in his machine and down into the Barbary Coast to the door of the Bowhead Lodging House.
Somewhat crestfallen, the striking pair repaired to the Bowhead saloon to discuss the situation over a glass of beer.
Later in the day all four members of the syndicate met in the Bowhead saloon, where Mr. Gibney explained the deal to Captain Scraggs.
He went up to the Bowhead saloon, had a drink, leaned on the end of the bar and thought it over.
McGuffey was willing so they left the bulkhead for the more convivial shelter of the Bowhead saloon.
Aye bane buy drink in the Bowhead saloon," The Squarehead announced.
Those animals are only members of the genus Balaenoptera furnished with dorsal fins, and like sperm whales, they're generally smaller than the bowhead whale.
When your peers, Mr. Land, destroy decent, harmless creatures like the southern right whale or the bowhead whale, they commit a reprehensible offense.
Until now it's the bowhead whale you've hunted, and it won't risk going past the warm waters of the equator.
In both the bowhead and the right whales, the projection of the blow upward from two widely separated blowholes assumes a very wide V-shape with two distinct columns, which may be seen when the animals are viewed from front or back.
Description Bowhead whales, so-called because of the high-arching jaws and the resultant contour of the head, reach a maximum length of about 65 feet (19.
May Be Confused With Bowhead whales are the only species of large whales found routinely in Arctic waters.
Two of these, the bowhead or Greenland whale, and its more widely distributed close relative the right whale, are baleen whales.
The bowhead and right whales may be readily distinguished from one another by the characters listed below for stranded specimens.
Though two separate columns sometimes may be visible under windless conditions in the blows of most mysticetes, this feature is exaggerated and is most characteristic in the bowhead and right whales.
Bowhead whales have neither a fin nor the slightest trace of a dorsal fin or ridge, while all the balaenopterids have a dorsal fin; and their back is extremely smooth, like that of the right whale.
Bowhead whales have up to at least 360 plates per side, far more than the black right whale.
A harpooned bowhead whale (this one from the Alaskan population).
His tanned features and knotted hands, his quick manner and alert stride, spoke the Dundee and Grimsby whaler, who had sailed many seas and fastened to more than an ordinary number of bowhead whales.
The ice will lie about here, and the bowhead can't go north till it opens.
Bowhead whales are found and captured in the Arctic Ocean as soon as the ice breaks up, which is usually in June, until October.
Right whales are taken in the Japan Sea from February to October, but bowhead whales have never been seen there.
A great bulk wallowed just before him, the helpless body of the bowhead whale, the killers darting in a mad mêlée for its head.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bowhead" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
