Just at this time a shoal of jolly porpoises came rolling and tumbling by, turning up their sleek sides to the sun, and spouting up the briny element in sparkling showers.
It is a remarkable fact that only a few whales and porpoises eat fish or the flesh of other whales.
We'll be catching bonita and dolphin, and spearing porpoises from the bowsprit.
The custom-house tug was racing toward us and a big school of porpoises got under our bow and began cutting the most ridiculous capers.
You'll be in no hurry to catch porpoises again in a dark night, alone.
The sea was green, and the color especially beautiful under the bows and stern; the picture was further animated by a number of porpoises and albicores leaping from wave to wave.
The Porpoises massed their heavy bulk close to the door.
They were all there, and the devoted Porpoises quickly restored them to consciousness.
The faithful Porpoises had not been too stupid to explain the simple facts of danger and rescue.
The Porpoises seemed really ashamed of not being thoroughly stupid.
In vain the main body of the Porpoises hurled themselves against the intruders; their heroism was fruitless.
We again perceived that their light attracted the crocodiles, and even the porpoises (toninas), the noise of which interrupted our sleep, till the fire was extinguished.
The river was swelled by the easterly wind; but it soon became calm, and then some great cetacea, much resembling the porpoises of our seas, began to play in long files on the surface of the water.
The Spaniards of the Missions designate them, as they do the porpoises of the ocean, by the name of toninas.
The porpoises (toninas) ploughed the river in long files.
I may here mention that I have frequently seen the porpoises at the Brighton Aquarium lying asleep at the surface, with the blow-hole exposed above it, breathing automatically, and without conscious effort.
The supposed coils of the serpent's body present exactly the appearance of eight porpoises following each other in line.
A sketch of it was given which almost exactly accorded with that of Pontoppidan's sea-serpent, namely, seven hunches or protuberances like so many porpoises swimming in line, preceded by a head and neck raised slightly out of water.
Their attention was called to a school of porpoises that came leaping toward them, appearing at first like miniature geysers springing out of the oily green seas.
The porpoises divided, passing on either side of the sloop and close aboard, racing on toward the land that lay off yonder somewhere in the green distance.
Now, at first furtively, then with the fury of an immense belch only the sea could muster forth, a school of porpoises broke about the little craft.
With the exception of several schools of porpoises very few whales were seen during the outward voyage.
Porpoises came blowing round the boat, and Cape pigeons wheeled and swooped within a few feet of us.
He had been in these latitudes before, and always had seen porpoises and dolphins and flying fish, as well as sharks and bonita.
But Bert says the sharks are all with the dolphins and porpoises and bonita--in other words, that there aren't any.
Before leaving the Golden Gate, Jack had told us of the flying fish that we were sure to pick up with as soon as we got out to sea, and of the dolphin and porpoises and bonita, to say nothing of sharks.
Porpoises not infrequently are spotted by disease; but those that we saw appeared to be in excellent health, and although we remarked on their odd appearance, we believed their strange colors to be entirely natural.
Among other curious things, we saw a number of pink porpoises and some that were mottled pink and white and brown.
Mollie, as a huge gathering of porpoises plunging and tumbling over each other appeared under the lee of the vessel.
To which one of the Porpoises seemed to reply by sticking his head up out of the crest of a wave and sneezing at the Unwiseman.
Again the Unwise old head was cocked to one side to catch the answer but all the blue porpoise did was to wiggle his tail in the air, as he butted one of his brother porpoises in the stomach.
The King can't go sloshing around under the ocean saying howdido to porpoises and shad and fellers like that.
The sailor up on the front piazza says there's a school of Porpoises ahead.
Porpoises often made their appearance very near the coast, in shoals not "schools," for porpoisesare uneducated some hundreds in number.
Whales and porpoises are found in all seas, and some dolphins and porpoises are inhabitants of the larger rivers of South America and Asia.
One of the crew goes out on the martingale guys, and, having made a line fast about waist high to the martingale or dolphin striker, to give him a little additional support, stands watching the movement of the porpoises beneath.
I could see a dozen quarreling porpoises eating the tongue of the monster that had been, two hours before, alive and, to these scavengers, invincible.
We were daily attended by great numbers of sea birds, and frequently saw porpoises curiously spotted white and black.
The tide was rather low, and not very far away a great company of porpoises bowed each other through the mazes of a slow quadrille.
There was nothing but the porpoises and the breakwaters and the rocks, and a little bald sand dune, sketched on the canvas of that pale day.
Delphinapterus leucas reaches a length of 10 feet, and like other Porpoises will ascend rivers in search of food.
Orca is a powerful and rapacious Whale; and Eschricht has stated that from the stomach of one, thirteen Porpoises and fourteen Seals were extracted.
Porpoises and dolphins, and such other fishes as did not mind making a hundred and fifty miles a day, were her companions now for several days.
There were no porpoises at all skipping along with the Olympia!
The sloop was again doing her work smoothly, hardly rolling at all, but just leaping along among the white horses, a thousand gamboling porpoises keeping her company on all sides.
But the porpoises were, on the whole, vastly more appreciative than the turtles; they jumped a deal higher.
You should have seen the porpoisesleap when I pitched my voice for the waves and the sea and all that was in it.
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