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The lily-iron is, in principle, exactly what a whaleman would describe by the word “toggle.”
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Sam Baker, being an old whaleman, darted his harpoon cleverly, and held fast the struggling animal.
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My other assailant I hurled into a heap of ashes, and the way he blubbered was a caution to a Nantucket whaleman.
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M'Gary, an old-whaleman, familiar from early manhood with the hardships of Arctic voyaging, wept at the sight.
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A New Bedford boy might tell us, and very correctly, that the woodpecker harpoons his grub, just as a whaleman harpoons a whale.
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