10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SULPHUR-BOTTOM»
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sulphur-bottom in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sulphur-bottom and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Refiguring Melodrama in Film and Television: Captive ...
However enclosed the domestic spaces and their interpretable signs might
appear, these spaces are ultimately connected to Sulphur Bottom, the open itself.
We should understand Sulphur Bottom as an any-space-whatever—a singular
space ...
2
The Antarctic Dictionary: A Complete Guide to Antarctic English
1902 Beddard, Frank Evers Mammalia. The Cambridge Natural History vol X
Macmillan and Co, London: 356. B. musculus, the Finner, is intermediate in size
– not more than 70 feet. It seems doubtful whether the “sulphur bottom,” B.
australis, ...
Among these I here include the following chapters : — I. The Sperm Whale ; II. the
Right Whale ; III. the Fin-Back Whale ; IV. the Hump-backed Whale ; V. the Razor-
Back Whale ; VI. the Sulphur-Bottom Whale. BOOK I. (Folio ), Chapter I. (Sperm ...
4
Wakeful Anguish: A Literary Biography of William Humphrey
Romantic, no doubt, but without any yearning for such days of old when knights
were bold, because he had Texas, not little England, and Sulphur Bottom, bigger
and infinitely more mysterious and dangerous than any Sherwood Forest, a crew
...
33] says he “ has seen 2160 feet of line fast to a Sulphur/Bottom run out in a few
seconds at the rate of sixty miles per hour, with the engine going eight knots
astern and brakes on.” The accounts of his speed are probably exaggerated.
What he loved was swamps. Nor were they for him impervious. He made his way
in them with the same accustomed ease as the game he stalked there. Sulphur
Bottom, our swamp was called; it belonged to my father. Actually he owned not ...
"Shironagasu" ( Sulphur bottom ) . Far off the starboard, a high thin spout shot
into the air; then another and another. "I can see birds," Erik said. "He must be
feeding. But I didn't figure on a sulphur bottom. Those big fellows net the
company six ...
We could turn back and find California grays closer inshore, or we may steam on
another fifty miles for finback or sulphur-bottom." "Which may we spot today?" I
inquired. "Probably sulphur-bottom," he said. "Sulphur-bottom, you know, are ...
9
Volcanoes of Indonesia: Creators and Destroyers
A sharp-pointed iron rod is used to break up freshly condensed sulphur which
may be used for, among other things, medicine or bleaching sugar (bottom, left).
Close-up of sulphur (bottom, right). The darker the colour of sulphur, the fresher
the ...
Andrew Wright, Chris Smith, 2013
10
Twentieth-Century Shore-Station Whaling in Newfoundland and ...
became plentiful in July, with eighty—two killed by mid—September “and
prospects good for soon reaching the century mark. ”45 Haw/e returned to St
John's on 12 November after taking “104 fish, the last being a sulphur bottom, 98
feet long, ...
Anthony Dickinson, Chesley Sanger, 2005
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SULPHUR-BOTTOM»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
sulphur-bottom is used in the context of the following news items.
Misinterpreting this weekend's Moby-Dick Marathon
“It is vital to spend 20 pages discussing not the novel's characters but the difference between a hump-back whale and a sulphur-bottom whale,” they said.). «CU Columbia Spectator, Nov 14»
A view to a krill
He was rather scathing about local terminology, stating that “Americans and Newfoundlanders [knew them] by the stupid name of 'Sulphur-Bottom'.”. «The Independent News, May 11»
Song of the Whale has been monitoring the waters off the Canary …
There are of course species called gray and blue whale, although the blue was also sometimes known as the "sulphur-bottom" because diatoms clinging to its ... «BBC News, Oct 08»
