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A marine biologist insisted that dolphins, which are considered to be one of the most intelligent mammals, like to help the helpless.

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 Meanings and Examples of MARINER
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mariner
 n.  one whose occupation is to assist in navigating ships; seaman or sailor
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  Some chapters back, one Bulkington was spoken of, a tall, newlanded mariner, encountered in New Bedford at the inn.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23. The Lee Shore.
2  Their appearance is generally hailed with delight by the mariner.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
3  Thus, gentlemen, though an inlander, Steelkilt was wild-ocean born, and wild-ocean nurtured; as much of an audacious mariner as any.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
4  But, in general, they toil with their jack-knives alone; and, with that almost omnipotent tool of the sailor, they will turn you out anything you please, in the way of a mariner's fancy.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 57. Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in She...
5  There they lay in their triangular oaken vaults, each mariner a chiselled muteness; a score of lamps flashing upon his hooded eyes.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 97. The Lamp.
6  So, too, it is, that in these resplendent Japanese seas the mariner encounters the direst of all storms, the Typhoon.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
7  The magnetic energy, as developed in the mariner's needle, is, as all know, essentially one with the electricity beheld in heaven; hence it is not to be much marvelled at, that such things should be.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 124. The Needle.
8  I suppose I felt as one may imagine the unarmed mariner to feel when he is rescued by a friendly man-of-war from the pursuit of a pirate.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  Nothing further passed between the mariner and Hester Prynne.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
10  Pursuing a zigzag course across the marketplace, the child returned to her mother, and communicated what the mariner had said.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
11  And without listening to Villefort he arose, and followed Valentine, who was running down-stairs with the joy of a shipwrecked mariner who finds a rock to cling to.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 74. The Villefort Family Vault.
12  The gamin is born a tiler as he is born a mariner.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—THE GAMIN SHOULD HAVE HIS PLACE IN THE CLASSI...
13  An artist friend fitted her out with his castoff palettes, brushes, and colors, and she daubed away, producing pastoral and marine views such as were never seen on land or sea.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
14  She had formerly been a mere mortal, but had been since raised to the rank of a marine goddess.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK V
15  The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
Example Sentence:
1  A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
2  A mariner must have his eye upon rocks and sands as well as upon the North Star.
3  Under such a wind you cannot see one mariner on deck of that ship.
4  This is the world's largest aquarium with 8 million gallons of fresh and marine water and more than 100000 animals representing 500 species from around the globe.
5  According to the marine biologist, the Miami Circle dolphin burial is the first to be found outside the Pacific Northwest.
6  Led by Professor David Paterson, the British team have begun a three-year project to map tidal flows and marine life, using remote sensing techniques.
7  The dorsal fin is the vertical fin on the back of a fish and certain marine mammals.
8  Roe is the fully ripe egg masses of fish and certain marine animals, such as shrimp and scallop.
9  A marine biologist insisted that dolphins, which are considered to be one of the most intelligent mammals, like to help the helpless.
10  The richness and variety of marine life.
11  The most effective new botanicals are extracts from cola nut and marine algae.
12  He's a world expert on marine mammals.
13  The oil slick seriously threatens marine life around the islands.
14  I'm hovering in a makeshift kitchen, watching one of Italy's most eminent marine biologists gleefully playing chef.
15  Ideals are like the stars -- we never reach them, but like mariners, we chart our course by them.