How To Use White whale In A Sentence
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Nothing shall deter him from killing the White Whale.
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I think about Ahab on his ship, pacing the quarterdeck, possessed by and obsessed with the white whale; I think of Ishmael, in chapter forty-one, the white whale lurking in the depths, as he attempts to understand his complicated captain and his quest.
History of a Suicide
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Cheryl is an angry white whale in the same proud tradition as her predecessor, morbidly obese endomorph and noted free-thinker, Kenneth Tomlinson, whose hog-bristled jowls - wholly owned and operated by Rove Inc. - are so fond a memory amongst public broadcasters.
Tony Hendra: National RePUBLICan Radio
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What Nairne calls a porpoise, is really the beluga, a small white whale.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861
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Even after a formal investigation has been called to look into complaints surrounding her compulsatory obsession, Jackie Walorski continues to chase her white whale.
Bil Browning: The nexus: Abortion zealot Jackie Walorski and Indiana's hate crimes legislation
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Elizabeth: I was the great white whale.
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So-called porpoise leather is made of the skin of the white whale.
Ranching, Sport and Travel
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“There she breaches! there she breaches!” was the cry, as in his immeasurable bravadoes the White Whale tossed himself salmon-like to Heaven.
Moby Dick; or the Whale
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Not far from Malbaie, he saw the so-called "porpoises," or white whales, (beluga, French, _marsouin_) that still disport themselves in great numbers in these waters, come puffing to the surface and writhe their whole length into view like miniature sea-serpents.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861
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Given the obscurity and perceived difficulty of his oeuvre, he is literature's white whale, Rosebud, and Bigfoot combined.
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How it was that they so aboundingly responded to the old man's ire -- by what evil magic their souls were possessed, that at times his hate seemed almost theirs; the White Whale as much their insufferable foe as his; how all this came to be -- what the White
Moby Dick, or, the whale
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Furthermore, he is only concerned with one thing and that is the pursuit of the White Whale.
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Polar scientists have recruited an unlikely pair to aid their exploration of freezing Arctic waters: two wild white whales.
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To Ahab, the White Whale represents the impossibility of going behind the superficial layers of nature or reality.
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A white cat, like an albino human or white whale, has a biochemical quirk.
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Susan felt like a fat white whale surrounded by sharks.
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The boats were lowered but the harpooner on the boat nearest him was devoured by the Great White Whale.
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Chapter 62 consists of a single word, "hapless" - the only word Orion's abridger cut from the chapter, trimming a 105-word sentence to 104; the book's first sentence is "methodically"; the final hunt for the white whale dissolves into pure punctuation.
Brit Lit Blogs
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He was a leading merchant at Quebec and was interested in the fishing for "porpoises" or white whales.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861
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This question is the great white whale of graduate school finance courses.
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The beluga or white whale is a medium-sized odontocete, widely distributed throughout Arctic waters.
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The white side of the fortress surfaced briefly, a breaching white whale, before waves splashed up the sides and it rolled back down into the deeps.