Sentences with phrase «as blubber»

Russian fur traders arrived in the early 1800s and exploited resources such as blubber from fur seals and pelts from sea lions.

In the opening pages Luther set the pace, speaking of the Duke rubbing «his scabby and scurvy head» against the Elector, saying that the Duke «curses, blasphemes, shrieks, struggles, bellows, and spits», and says that such books as the Duke's «make me tingle with pleasure from head to toe when I see that through me, poor wretched man that I am, God the Lord maddens and exasperates the hellish and worldly princes... while I sit under the shade of faith and the Lord's Prayer, laughing at the devils and their crew as they blubber and struggle in their great fury».

(The latter is pretty unconvincing as a vulgar cad, more convincing as a blubbering, terrified lab experiment.)

Not exact matches

As my kids get older and yet another school year starts, I find myself a blubbering mix of emotion.

I might need to get myself something to make me feel brave too as, if I am being honest with you, I am going to be a blubbering mess waving goodbye to my not so little man on his first day.

Whales are wrapped in fat — a thick layer of blubber — as vital insulation against the cold.

While the researchers in the current study can't pinpoint exposure, people in the Faroe Islands eat a lot of seafood, such as whale meat and blubber — which act like storage containers for these persistent chemicals.

Kelp Gull harassment — they feed on skin and blubber pecked from the backs of living whales — has also increased in recent years, implicating the wounding as a potential contributing cause of the increased mortality.

Background Mammals that have evolved to live in cold waters, such as whales, seals, sea lions and polar bears, commonly have a layer of blubber.

Biotoxins that dolphins had accumulated in their blubber may also have been released as the weakened mammals broke down their fat for sustenance, flooding their systems with toxins that hamper an immune response.

The blubber is evenly spread over much of their body, just as the shortening in this activity covered the surface of your finger in a thick layer.

A crowd gathered, the charges were blown, and then everyone ran as giant chunks of blubber rained from the sky and crushed the Oldsmobile 88 of Walter Umenhoefer, who became known as «the blubber victim» forevermore, to his annoyance.

That helps keep them warm in frigid waters, because these marine mammals don't produce blubber — a thick layer of fat — as do seals and walruses.

It would seem that a large source of vitamin C, as well as other vitamins, for the traditional Inuit people was raw organ meats and blubber of various marine animals.

During 3 trips to the Arctic the Eskimos ate large amounts of fat in the form of raw blubber and other fats as well as raw meat, only one of the 3000 Eskimos were found overweight.

But as I stripped away nearly all the fat, I was shocked with how little, actual muscle mass I had beneath my layers of blubber:

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Blood and blubber splattered as badly - rendered sharks and shrieking humans were slaughtered in ever dafter ways.

Chase's authority over the crew of the Essex, as they set upon sail for whale blubber, undermines George Pollard's power, creating conflict that sees the ship endure unnecessary storm hardship.

Oscar prefers dur - ah - ma, and next to Davis's epic, tearful stare - down against La Streep, Adams's «can't we all just get along» blubbering comes off as an irritating, protracted whine.

We first meet Goodman's Frank in a Grecian bathhouse, blubber spilling out from beneath his robes as he barks a cruel economic philosophy that, when you set aside all the profanity, actually makes a great deal of sense.

Dark Souls brought that question to bear with difficulty so crushing, it could turn the most seasoned gamer into a blubbering mess as visions of the Capra Demon dancing over their head.

It's not that Walter discovers that his life is slotted for one eventuality, noble or ignoble, but that Walter has a stupid murder mystery to solve that somehow involves his blubbering wife Agatha (Virginia Madsen, egregiously wasted) and numerology expert Isaac (Danny Huston, doing Dustin Hoffman's role as the picture's exposition).

It's Me, Margaret; Blubber; Just as Long as We're Together; and the five book series... (more)

As I have observed before, what critics don't do with female authors is flop down and face east, blubbering and feet - kissing and throwing around extravagant if shopworn designations like «the Great American Novel», creating the sort of hoo - ha that recently surrounded Freedom by Jonathan Franzen.

Sibes do not have the digestive system to cope with cereal based foods as originally their main source of food was fish, seal - meat and whale blubber.

The packing strap that was embedded in Green Tie's neck in 2011 was so tight that as he grew, it cut through blubber and muscle, creating a very deep wound that caused the skin to fold over itself.

Fossil records show that northern elephant seals have been around for millions of years, yet by the end of the 19th century, experts say there were only about 100 seals left as a result of over-hunting by humans, who harvested the animals» valuable blubber in order to make oil.

It started as early as the 1800s when fisherman reduced the whale population to use the blubber for lamp oil.