Sentences with phrase «whaler named»

Alisdair leaves the piano, to Ada's dismay, but a former whaler named George (Harvey Keitel) senses the piano's importance, and shelters it in his house.

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Before and since the whalers it has been the landfall for westbound Atlantic shipping, and today its name is bandied about the skies as a key point in the regulation of transoceanic aerial traffic.

Much of a sperm whale's head is occupied by the spermaceti organ, a huge fibrous cask containing a milky, waxy material that was highly prized as a lubricant and lamp oil, and which to Nantucket whalers looked like nothing more than gallons and gallons of semen — hence the name.

Based on Nathaniel Philbrick's 2000 book of the same name, it follows whaler Owen Chase (Chris Hemsworth) when his 1820 expedition under Capt. George Pollard (Benjamin Walker) is thwarted and sunk by a 100 - foot white whale, leaving the crew stranded at sea for 90 days.

Or I could tell you, madame, monsieur, sir, madam, how this name was given to me — I was christened Parrot because my hair was colored carrot, because my skin was burned to feathers, and when I tumbled down into the whaler, the coxswain yelled, Here's a parrot, captain.

If you're a diehard hockey fan, you might know them better by their previous name, the Hartford Whalers, but their winning track record is what really sets them apart.

Highly unlikely, although Maine State library records of that period do show the existence of a seafaring man named Coon, the captain of a whaler.

Other whalers then sarcastically called small whales «minke's» and the name seem to have stuck.