It fell back into the water, its head dripping bloody foam, and was lost to my sight, the harpoon line hissing after it as it sounded.

His leg may have gotten tangled in a harpoon line.

They also made inflated harpoon line floats to help them hunt larger prey.

He was, in fact, aiming for the harpoon line, which he finally got on the third shot.

After a struggle that lasted all night, the harpoon lines broke and the whale escaped.

At this first agonizing moment the great beast flipped out of the water, the harpoon lines trailing, and Whipple cried, "It's bigger than the Thetis!"

Then the harpoon line came taut and the ray showed, pulling away from him while its tail, in reflex aggression, lashed again and again over the body.

The green-robe made the harpoon lines fast to various thick branches and roots.

Then he took two turns of the harpoon [94] line around the bitt in the bow and hid his head on his hands.

The ocean, falling back from it, nearly capsized the tiny boat pulled by the harpoon line.