Four of them--comprising two old and two cubs--were harpooned during the day.
Another example of the application of the principles of natural science, may be adduced with respect to my Father's practice in the capture of certain harpooned whales.
It is a matter, therefore, of much importance to avoid the possible contingency of a harpooned whale "dying down.
A porpoise was harpooned under the bow, but broke away before it could be secured.
The mate and cook then went out in a boat, and were attacked by a war-canoe, the men in which harpooned the cook, and stripping the mate naked, threw him overboard.
They beat the poor fellow off, as he attempted to seize hold of the canoe, and, after torturing him for some time, at length harpooned him in the back.
The meal consisted of a large boiled Pirarucu, which had been harpooned for the purpose in the morning, stewed and roasted turtle, piles of mandioca-meal and bananas.
On most days, however, they brought two or three fine fish, and once they harpooned a manatee, or Vacca marina.
When a peixe-boi has been harpooned in the usual manner, this is not thrown away, or wasted.
The man had been in pursuit of a peixe-boi, which he had harpooned near the middle of the river, after attaching his weapon by its cord to the bow of his montaria.
Once out on the shoals when Manuel harpooned a huge hawk-bill turtle--the valuable species from which the amber shell is derived--we had a thrilling and dangerous ride.
They can be easily harpooned by these skilful Japs.
The swordfish are always harpooned from the end of the bowsprit of a sailing-vessel.
It is not strange that when harpooned it should retaliate by attacking its assailant.
At last one rose near Carr's boat, and he approached and, fatally for himself, harpooned it.
On the 29th of May a whale was harpooned by an officer belonging to the 'Resolution.
And fate served our Canadian so well that, instead of one whale, he harpooned two with a double blow, striking one straight to the heart, and catching the other after some minutes' pursuit.
It is no rare thing to meet in the middle of the ocean whales so sound asleep that they can be successfully attacked, and Ned Land had harpooned more than one during its sleep.
The harpoonedindividuals lay scattered over the floor by scores; but the agent that had dispersed and perforated them remained for weeks together an inscrutable mystery to John.
In a second two lances sank into theharpooned strugglers.
Sticks were placed to locate these, and after a few days' careful study and hard work we harpooned six seals.
What would be the good of the fish if you harpooned them?
In the bow of one of the boats stood a stout young man who had harpooned the whale.
When the men had harpooned the whale and were having a hard time to hold it and keep their boats from capsizing, he rose and strolled down to the shore and scooped the whale and the boats from the water and placed them on the beach.
Their strength was so great that they could hold a harpooned walrus as easily as the Inuit could hold a seal.
The old whalesman was not long aboard before getting confirmed in his conjecture that the ship was the same whose boats had harpooned and "drogued" the cachalot, the carcass of which had been encountered by the Catamaran.
Then he set off after another; but as he is skimming over the sea towards it the huge head of a hooded seal[18] suddenly pops up right in front of the kaiak, and is harpooned in an instant.
This device has been found necessary in order to prevent the harpooned seals from diving and swimming.
They made fast the harpoon-line round their own waist or round the kaiak-ring, and when the harpooned seal was not killed at the first stroke, they let it drag themselves and the kaiak after it instead of the bladder.
The harpooned seal is killed by means of a lance (anguvigak).
It is harpooned and taken for the sake of its fat, from which oil is made.
Ask them if the whale wasn't about dead when they harpooned it, and if it didn't already have an iron in it?
We harpooned it the other day, and we've been hunting for it ever since.
He's been wounded, probably by a steamer's propeller after he was harpooned up north, or else that's the wound of a bomb gun.
There ain't any particulars except that we harpooned this whale, and it's ours," growled Bill Lowden.
Here, too, the natives have discovered that the nose is the vulnerable part of the dugong, and having first harpooned it in any part of the body, await an opportunity of spearing it there, with almost invariably speedy fatal effects.
Generally both turtle and dugong are harpoonedas they rise to the surface to breathe, the sportsmen being very cunning and skilful.
When harpooned they do not run any great distance in one direction, but dart about much in the way that a trout does when hooked.
Another poor fellow having early in the winter harpooned a walrus through a hole in the ice, was dragged into the water before he could disengage himself from the line.
On the 29th of May, a whale was harpooned by an officer belonging to the Resolution.
I have seen one harpooned twice, with a hook in his jaws, and come again to a fresh bait, yet will they suffer themselves to be scared by the smallest noise, and hardly ever take their prey without it is quite still.
At last one rose near Carr's boat, and he approached, and fatally for himself, harpooned it.
Thus the price of a sponge brought up by diving is much more considerable than that of a harpooned sponge.
The fishermen of Messina and Reggio fish by night, using large boats carrying torches, and a mast, at the top of which one of their number is stationed to announce the approach of their prey, which is harpooned by a man standing in the bows.
His gruff old rival, who advised the starvation policy toward the escaping party in the miserable old hut, had been harpooned in the back and buried alive under a heap of stones.
The drones and the useless are sometimes harpoonedin the back merely to get rid of them.
The harpooned bull and one other were carried as trophies to the vessel.
They were poor hunters, so he stole upon them from behind a hummock, and harpooned them in the back.
But he paid dearly for that prank; for a few months afterward another ship harpooned him very easily, finding two spears still in him, and a wound in his head.
My father was harpoonedwhen I was very young, and I remember how bravely he died.
Thus the fact was approximately established that the harpooned whales did not pass around Cape Horn or the Cape of Good Hope, for they were of the class that could not cross the equator.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "harpooned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
