When it appears, they strike it again, and so on till there are sometimes three or four harpoons fast.
The harpoons are marked with the names of the ship and captain, and if a whale that has been killed by one ship be found by another, she is obliged to deliver up a certain portion of the blubber to the former.
Many more seals, too, came up to breathe, and more harpoons had to be requisitioned.
Many and many a boat had tried to catch him, but he had a way of diving and doubling to avoid the harpoons that some believed was rather more than natural; then when you thought he was miles and miles away, pop!
When it re-appeared harpoons and lances were at once driven into it, and it was killed almost immediately.
Meanwhile the other Eskimos ran forward, and, taking advantage of the creature's combative disposition, fixed several moreharpoons in it, besides giving it many severe thrusts with their lances.
May he never see the light of day--may he never aim the arrow--may his harpoons strike forever in the darkness!
With harpoonsand lances they followed the trail of the bear.
Each time the animals came up the hunters delivered more harpoons so as to pinion securely and at the same time despatch the prey.
Leaping to the opposite side of the sledge, with a terrific pull, he drew one of the harpoons out of the ice and with his knife speedily cut it loose from the lashings.
With skin lassos, harpoons and floats, the party crouched low and crept toward the prey.
Mixed with these were rusty old whaling lances and harpoons all broken and deformed.
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.
Go and gaze upon the iron emblematical harpoons round yonder lofty mansion, and your question will be answered.
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.
It is customary to have two harpoons reposing in the crotch, respectively called the first and second irons.
Directly afterwards three other canoes arrived, and the men, armed with harpoons and heavy spears, jumping on shore, joined their companions in hauling in on the rope attached to the hippopotamus.
The men in the canoe were hauling themselves up closer to their prey, preparatory to plunging their lances or harpoons into its body.
With two harpoons in, there was a considerable drag on, and in a short time she reappeared and a boat was soon lancing.
Foregoers and lines were tested, harpoons examined, guns cleaned and fired to make sure they would work, lines coiled away in boats, and every one was on the lookout.
The harpoons we used for this work were much smaller than the regular whaling harpoon and were made of the same tough Swedish iron.
Guns and harpoons were cleaned and greased and the ship was thoroughly washed.
Three additional harpoons were fired into it, and in the course of the forenoon it was killed, and the four boats started in the direction of the ship with the whale in tow.
As the boats, advancing under cover of the night, each division will, in three minutes from the time they arrive within danger of cannon shot, be in with the bow of the destined ship, and fire their harpoons into her.
The Azilian layers yielded over one thousand specimens of flattened and double-barbed harpoons made of the horns of the stag, thus widely differing from the late Magdalenian harpoons which are rounded and made of the horns of the reindeer.
These flat Azilian harpoons succeed the type of the double-rowed, cylindrical harpoons of the late Magdalenian, and are found mainly where the rivers, lakes, or pools offered favorable conditions for fishing.
It is only above these primitive horizons that layers are discovered with the rudimentary harpoons, and then with the perfected harpoons with single and double rows of barbs.
It is only above the levels where early types of these javelin points occur that the rudimentary harpoons of the typical early Magdalenian are found.
Harpoons with barbs on one side only; also batons de commandement.
Azilian double-rowed harpoons of stag horn, from Oban, on the west coast of Scotland.
Chipped and polished flints, awls and polishers in bone; harpoons rare.
It is generally agreed that the harpoonswere chiefly used for fishing and that many of the microlithic flints, which now begin to appear more abundantly, may have been attached to a shaft for the same purpose.
To the north, in Scotland, four Azilian stations have been discovered around Oban, on the western coast near the head of the Firth of Lorne, while Azilian harpoons have also been found on the Isle of Oronsay, at its entrance.
But harpoons are merely lances attached to a thong, and may be used with equal success against animals or against the larger fish, salmons or whales.
His implements are improvements upon those of the stone age: in all respects, that is, save in this one, that he had now no barbed weapons; whereas we remember that in the caves barbed harpoons are frequently met with.
They were now about waist-deep, and they kept close to the rushes with their harpoons raised, ready to cast the moment they should pass the rush bed and come in view of the crocodile.
It would be difficult to say which started first, the astonished young hippo into the water, or the harpoons from the hands of the howartis!
They cut up his hide into long lines to attach to the harpoons with which they catch himself, the said harpoons being pointed with his own tusks.
Opposite to them in the boat were fitted three lances for the purpose of killing whales, the harpoons being only the means by which the boat was attached to a fish, and quite useless to inflict a fatal wound.
New harpoons were fitted to poles of rough but heavy wood, without any attempt at neatness but every attention to strength.
Spears are out of date now, butharpoons are still employed in fishing.
Spears and harpoons of one barb are common, and some of the poisoned spears have heads similar to the arrows but of a larger size.
You want proper boats with crews, andharpoons with long lines suitable for the work.
It is almost the same as with the harpoons for the beluga.
There was quite an excitement amongst the men, who, without waiting for orders, saw to the tackle in the boats, Johannes and Petersen hastening to add white whale harpoons to the rest of the implements.
The moment that the Fly comes within reach, the watchful Devilkin turns her head, bends the stalk of her corselet slantwise and, flinging out her fore-limb, harpoons the Fly and grips her between her two saws.
If it wishes to move, the front harpoons open, stretch out, grasp a mesh and draw it to them.
The harpoons for hippopotami were precisely the same pattern as those used by the Hamran Arabs on the Taka frontier of Abyssinia, having a narrow blade of three-quarters of an inch in width, with only one barb.
A number of harpoons and floats for hippopotami were arranged in good order, and the tout ensemble of the hut showed that the owner was a sportsman.
A New Bedford boy might tell us, and very correctly, that the woodpecker harpoons his grub, just as a whaleman harpoons a whale.
Downy hears him, pecks a few strokes, and harpoonshim with unerring aim.
They fitted their harpoons with points of hard ivory or stone, they made their knives of the same material, and caught, in those days, a great many more seals than they do now.
If, however, they both throw at the same time and both harpoons strike, the animal is cut lengthwise in two, and divided between them, skin and all.
Small harpoons or javelins of this sort are still in use among Eskimos of the southern part of the west coast of Alaska.
Fritz, recollecting our encounter with the shark, placed the harpoons in readiness; and amused me by seeming to picture himself a whaler, flourishing his harpoon in most approved fashion.
Fishing lines, reels, cordage, and a couple of harpoons were put on board, as well as a mariner's compass.
Most of the Indians still fought by the fire, but some of the more fortunate had retreated to a distance and were gnawing and tearing at the raw chunks, using the harpoons in the manner of a huge fork.
The natives, tired by their long exertions at the dance, had thrown away their weighted harpoons and, except for a short club that Annunduk had snatched from a cache frame as he ran, were unarmed.
Illustration: "As they passed between the pillared rocks the Indians broke cover, hurling their copper-tipped harpoons as they ran.
The Fuegians simply throw their harpoons like a javelin, the Eskimo make use of instruments to hurl them (see Chap.
Five harpoons and one hundred and fifty-one bullets were used in subduing the monster, and it took five days to finally kill it.
They also made an abundant use of copper for adzes, harpoons for spearing fish, and needles for sewing garments.
Of the reign of Zer are also found copper harpoons cut with a second fang, similar forms being found among the remains of Mersekha and of Khasekhemui.
At any rate, the Cave-men used harpoons with barbs on one side for fishing, while they used harpoons with barbs on both sides when they went out to hunt.
Afterward the Cave-men fished with harpoons which had barbs on only one side.
At once the harpoons whizzed through the air and struck many a mortal blow.
Harpoons with barbs on both sides were well adapted for throwing through the air, while those with barbs on one side were better adapted for use in the water.
He helped him flake heads for harpoons and javelins and make strong shafts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "harpoons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
