Whalebone
in sentence
11 examples of Whalebone in a sentence
Nonetheless, even after women gained legal rights – and even as other assumptions about women have gone the way of smelling salts and
whalebone
stays – the condescending Victorian convention of not identifying women who make sex-crime charges remains with us.
Your quill pen will be whalebone, your ink a juice secreted by cuttlefish or squid.
Better armed than a baleen whale, whose upper jaw is adorned solely with whalebone, the sperm whale is equipped with twenty-five huge teeth that are twenty centimeters high, have cylindrical, conical summits, and weigh two pounds each.
Its open mouth let water flow through its
whalebone
like a murmuring surf.
Oval, stiffened with whalebone, it began with three round knobs; then came in succession lozenges of velvet and rabbit-skin separated by a red band; after that a sort of bag that ended in a cardboard polygon covered with complicated braiding, from which hung, at the end of a long thin cord, small twisted gold threads in the manner of a tassel.
Lestiboudois went about the church with his
whalebone
stick.
Five years after that did I tide at Birtwhistle's, and when I left had become cock myself, for I was wiry and as tough as whalebone, though I never ran to weight and sinew like my great predecessor.
Yet he was as lithe as a boy, and he was as tough as whalebone, walking all day over the hills or rowing on the sea without turning a hair.
A personage, who it appeared afterwards was a physician, placed himself standing by his side with a
whalebone
wand in his hand.
A pair of old, worn, beaver gloves, a broad-brimmed hat, and a faded green umbrella, with plenty of
whalebone
sticking through the bottom, as if to counterbalance the want of a handle at the top, lay on a chair beside him; and, being disposed in a very tidy and careful manner, seemed to imply that the red-nosed man, whoever he was, had no intention of going away in a hurry.
Mrs. Harden, be it observed, was the housekeeper: a woman after Mr. Brocklehurst's own heart, made up of equal parts of
whalebone
and iron.
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