whalebone
baleen

Two whalebones were given to the school by a former pupil and made into an arch.

I had no idea whalebone could be so costly,' said the purser.

He picked up a thin strip of whalebone and showed it to them.

He put a whalebone horn to his lips and blew a clear note.

With saws and files they would first shape the whalebone.

Whalebones stretch along the beach for nearly half a kilometre.

"All these whalebones, things that hadn't come up for ages.

In like manner the devil fish feeds, except that it has no whalebone.

I could find so many pebbles of whalebone, at least a dozen on any given outing.

"I feel low enough to be buried in whalebones, and they're on the bottom of the sea," he confessed.

Only the roofs, which were probably supported by timber or whalebone, would have been visible from the outside.

It is also the location of the last whalebone sidewalk in the United States.

Not a softness anywhere about me, Only whalebone and brocade.

He went to his desk and picked up the whalebone riding crop that lay upon it.

"The ice snapped those whalebones like they were toothpicks," Ron said.

In experiments, Darwin had imitated this action using a whalebone spring.

He was made of tarred rope and old whalebone.

He stood behind her to lace the whalebone corset.

When she walked there was a faint squeak of whalebone under incredible stress.

Instead of whalebone, they carve plastic picnic spoons and knives.

I made a cross-bow out of a piece of whalebone, and did very well without him.

"It was a house made out of peat blocks reinforced with whalebone.

Of these so called Whalebone whales, there would seem to be several varieties, most of which, however, are little known.

His hands smoothed away the marks on her skin made by the stiff whalebone stays.

Its contents, according to the labels, include samples of baleen.

Baleen is long, hard strips that act like a strainer.

Other whales, such as the gray whale, only use one side of their baleen.

The whale takes in a mouthful of water, and it goes through the baleen.

The food does not escape because, instead of teeth, these whales have filters called baleen.

It was primarily hunted for its blubber, oil, and baleen.

He said he was putting aside only some baleen.

Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone.

Whales fed on those, sieving them up with baleen.

All this would have made Baleen an enjoyable, if expensive, night out if the service hadn't been so bad.

They screen plankton and plants through their baleen.

Keeping my distance, I mark where the gill net has tangled in her mouth, caught no doubt across the baleen.

"It's tangled around her right fin and pretty much woven through her baleen," I say.

Baleen is made of keratin, a tissue also found in mammalian hair and nails.

Some whales, such as the bowhead whale, have longer baleen than others.

The baleen, or whalebone, was also used in products like corsets and umbrellas.

Yet we have seen that by his baleen it is impossible correctly to classify the Greenland whale.

His baleen was yellowed and corrupt, honeycombed like a Chinese puzzle.

It has very fine grey-black baleen that traps very small particles of food.

It sieves its food through its comb-like plates of baleen.

Nay; what thing, for example, is there in the Greenland whale's anatomy more striking than his baleen?

Another necklace of factories stretched into the distance, bending off to the right and ending with a great glowing baleen.

He threw one of these pieces of meat, containing the compressed baleen, outside the shelter.

It can only be derived from larger baleen whales, and the fin whale's meat has been considered superior.

Whales have a similar comb-like structure called baleen.