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Panting like grampuses, mopping their red faces, Sir Colin & posse then went back to their pews.

From Time Magazine Archive

We saw several flying-fish and a good many birds, apparently hovering over a shoal of whales or grampuses.

From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Brassey, Annie

What's that among a tribe o' such grampuses?

From Diana by Warner, Susan

Before they are out of sight I see them creeping on, and often blowing like grampuses with the unusual exertion they have made.

From The Three Admirals by Wells, J.R.

All around us whales and grampuses were gambolling and spouting in vast numbers.

From A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder by De Mille, James