Citations:bulls

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English citations of bulls

1851
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  • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
    It also seems to me that such scratches in the whale are probably made by hostile contact with other whales; for I have most remarked them in the large, full-grown bulls of the species.
  • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
    They generally are of two sorts; those composed almost entirely of females, and those mustering none but young vigorous males, or bulls, as they are familiarly designated.
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