There is now a brisk and increasing export trade in furs, fish, lumber, and whalebone from these ports, the imports chiefly consisting of American and Japanese goods.
For the latter is the unfailing source, every summer, of the vile concoction known as whisky, for which a Tchuktchi will barter his existence, to say nothing of whalebone and walrus tusks.
The fibres of whalebone have little lateral cohesion, as they are not transversely decussated, and may, therefore, be readily detached in the form of long filaments or bristles.
A solution of caoutchouc is often applied to whalebone and horse-hair hat bodies.
Bernardiere employs whalebonein very thin leaves for artificial flowers; and by bleaching and dyeing them of various hues, he has succeeded in making his imitations of nature to be very remarkable.
To this cabin came the Nanatalmutes from the east, and the Kogmollocks from the west, bartering their furs and whalebone and seal-oil for the things Blake gave in exchange, and adding women to their wares whenever Blake announced a demand.
His eyes followed Uppy suspiciously as he strung up the tent on its whalebone supports to keep the bite of the wind from the sledge on which Dolores sat at Peter's feet.
The structure of the machine, with its whalebone ribs and inflated tubes, was revealed in all its mammoth dimensions.
A cape with smallish hood worn in the earlier reigns was supplanted about 1777 by the calash, a huge hood set out with whalebone which came to cover the full head-dresses.
Corsets of pierced steel are seen in France from the late 16th and 17th century, and may have been in use here, though wood, cane, and whalebone were the chief supports.
He paid a boy $2 a week for tying up whalebone for parasols and umbrellas (which work could be done by a girl).
Enough whalebone can be prepared in one factory to supply the whole United States, I was told by one of the proprietors of a whalebone factory.
The natural color of whalebone is nearly the same as gray limestone rock.
The Whalebone Whale reaches a length of over 70 feet, but is timid and inoffensive.
One of Henry's sons had come to this country, to set up a cane and whalebone factory in New York.
Henry now felt no longer anxious about his family, and set up for himself in the cane and whalebone business.
Henry was very desirous of setting up a cane and whalebone factory, and doing business upon a larger scale, but had not the means to obtain suitable machinery.
Tight habits are very sightly to the eye; but, in common with tight corsets, steel or whalebone anywhere about the dress is fatal to that perfect liberty of movement so essential to success in a beginner.
The most important species of whalebone whales are the bowhead, or Greenland, whale (see Illust.
If you ever have to knit a cow's tail, doctor, remember the foundations are whalebone and India-rubber; and I would advise you to use the coarsest yarn you can find for the brush.
So I made her a tail of whaleboneand India-rubber and yarn.
A corset stiffened with whalebone or other material, worn by women, and rarely by men.
Every once in a while Peleg came hobbling out of his whalebone den, roaring at the men down the hatchways, roaring up to the riggers at the mast-head, and then concluded by roaring back into his wigwam.
As I hinted before, this whalebonemarquee was never pitched except in port; and on board the Pequod, for thirty years, the order to strike the tent was well known to be the next thing to heaving up the anchor.
Of these so called Whalebone whales, there would seem to be several varieties, most of which, however, are little known.
It yields the article commonly known as whalebone or baleen; and the oil specially known as "whale oil," an inferior article in commerce.
Yet I actually was; for in the large manufactory where I was born, no stouter whalebone frame or finely carved handle could be found.
I was severely injured in my whalebone parts, yet my ivory handle remained unbroken.
The whalebone whistled through the air, and, in spite of every effort, the cut which fell upon the bare shoulders elicited a low wail of suffering.
And there she stopped short: the words, the sobs, the wailing tone, all ceased as if by magic, as Mrs Ruggles snatched the whalebone from its supporting nails.
Mrs Ruggles said no more, but proceeded to place her whalebone rod upon a perch over the fire-place.
His notions of all the whale tribe and their varying characters were based on what he had read of the great timorous whalebone whale, and what he had seen of the merry and harmless porpoise.
Large plates of whalebone with finely divided ends are suspended vertically from the roof of the mouth.
In thewhalebone whales, the enormous size of the face, the immense jaws, and wide mouth are very striking.
Arctic seas, the whalebone and oil of which are so much valued in commerce, and also other whales, distinguished by having the head somewhat smaller in proportion to the body, with shorter whalebone and a larger number of vertebrae.
The whalebone is shorter and coarser than in any other species.
The first section is that of the whalebone whales, or Mystacoceti, in which no functional teeth are developed, although there are tooth-germs during foetal life.
In the whalebone whales teeth are absent (except in the foetal condition), and the palate is provided with numerous transversely placed horny plates, forming the "whalebone.
The flippers are short and broad, with five digits; the head is very large and the whalebone very long and narrow, highly elastic and black; while the scapula is high, with a distinct coracoid and coronoid process.
The whalebone is long, slender, elastic and white.
The whalebone does not make its appearance until after birth; and consists of a series of flattened horny plates, between three and four hundred in number, on each side of the palate, with a bare interval along the middle line.
Whalebone really consists of modified papillae of the mucous membrane of the mouth, with an excessive and horny epithelial development.
Whalebone Inlet is at its lower end, but is too shallow to be of any service to commerce.
Leaving Portsmouth, the canoe entered Core Sound, which grew narrower as the shoals inside of Whalebone Inlet were crossed, partly by rowing and partly by wading on the sand-flats.
At the upper part of the cork b is fixed a whalebone bow, having a small pivot hole in its centre to receive the point of the shaft.
Penaud also substituted india-rubber under torsion for the whalebone and clock springs of the smaller models, and the steam of the larger ones.
But the buckskins were sinewed with whaleboneand used to desert work.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "whalebone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
