1 It may never have occurred to you that a porpoise spouts.
2 Be all this as it may, his voice was now often heard hailing the three mast-heads and admonishing them to keep a bright look-out, and not omit reporting even a porpoise.
3 They had a great porpoise grant from the crown.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish. 4 There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis CarrollContext Highlight In CHAPTER X. The Lobster Quadrille 5 In New Bedford, fathers, they say, give whales for dowers to their daughters, and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a-piece.
6 The name is of my own bestowal; for there are more than one sort of porpoises, and something must be done to distinguish them.
7 Also, that in Henry VIIIth's time, a certain cook of the court obtained a handsome reward for inventing an admirable sauce to be eaten with barbacued porpoises, which, you remember, are a species of whale.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.