Philippa survived the murder attempt, when Walter stabbed her, because her whalebone corset protected her. |
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She glimpsed crinoline out of the corner of her eye, and smelled musk and whalebone. |
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Truss a few starlets into whalebone corsets and swathe them in yards of dimity. |
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Whales and dolphins were also hunted for their meat, as well as other useful products such as whalebone and fat. |
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Although baleen is commonly called whalebone, it is not bone but keratin, the same material as your nails and hair. |
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Upon his return from his whaling voyages, his ships were laden with typical whaling ship cargo like sperm oil and whalebone. |
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The next essential garment was the corset stiffened with thin strips of whalebone. |
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As she pulled at the laces of the tight whalebone corset, she gave a little gasp. |
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The favourite shaping material of stays was whalebone, cut into thin strips and sewn in a fan pattern to make the torso appear rounder. |
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As I pushed through the last strings of a job lot of whalebone corsets, I was finally able to come upon the books. |
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There are 34 full-color photographs of beautiful gages made of ebony, rosewood, boxwood, mahogany, cherry, applewood, whalebone, ivory etc. |
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These whales are distinguished from the toothed whales by having baleen, or whalebone, as part of the mouth structure. |
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A good fisherman weaves his own nets with twine and a needle made of whalebone. |
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In June 1843 it was reported that about seventy tons of oil and several tons of whalebone had been secured that season. |
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One of the most useful types of bone, although not the easiest to get hold of, was whalebone. |
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They sat through lectures, touched whalebone, poured over maps and even tried their hand at balancing a harpoon. |
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He works in a wide range of materials, including welded steel, whalebone, limestone, Italian crystal alabaster and African wonderstone. |
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The cloth could be 'ironed' by rubbing it between a whalebone plaque and a fist-sized glass or stone smoother which was heated either in hot sands or by the fire. |
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Scrimshaw is the art or practice of drawing or carving on pieces of ivory, whalebone or wood. |
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Like the kayak, the umiak was made of seal or other animal skins stretched over a driftwood or whalebone frame and was paddled. |
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Hoop skirt, also called Hoop Petticoat, garment with a frame of whalebone or of wicker or osier basketwork. |
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Subsequent corsets of the 19th century were shaped like an hourglass and were reinforced with whalebone and metal. |
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The predominant medium, however, is old whalebone found along beaches in this area. |
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There is a saying that Peterhead was built on whale blubber and guarded by whalebone. |
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Taloyoak first became famous for its whalebone sculptures which were large and rather fantastic in conception. |
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Lightweight wire, collapsible steel, whalebone, horsehair, and inflatable gutta-percha were used at various times to create or strengthen bustles. |
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The harpoon is make of whalebone and his teeth and eyebrows are also made of whalebone. |
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Blubber, fish, and meat were eaten raw. Dog teams pulled the snow sleds they made from driftwood, whalebone, and caribou antlers. |
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When we wear them we come out bruised and cut where the whalebone digs in. |
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I bet Susan would look really good in a whalebone corset and a bustle. |
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Is it true that whalebone was once used in the fabrication of umbrellas? |
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His favourite material for sculpting was very old whalebone. |
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Ramrods of blackened whalebone with horn tips and iron scrapers and jags. |
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The main trade item was whalebone from the Greenland whale. |
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These southern whalers only wanted the oil and the whalebone. |
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Inuit in Alaska, Greenland and Labrador built solid, lasting dwellings from stone and peat, or by covering a whalebone or wooden framework with animal skins. |
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The feminine figure was artificially controlled by a tight underbodice with metal or whalebone strips in the seams to give a small waist and slender torso. |
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The suffragettes got us the vote and they did it in whalebone corsets. |
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The showmen yoke the wreckers on tent-ropes, drag them through water, trice them to wheels, thrash them with whalebone whips: Three dozen for every man jack of 'em. |
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The other problem with garden books is that so many of them blabber on about an idea of nature that came into fashion in the time of hoop skirts and whalebone corsets. |
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The Chumash were skilled artisans: they made a variety of tools out of wood, whalebone, and other materials, fashioned vessels of soapstone, and produced some of the most complex basketry in native North America. |
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Discover the way of life of the Thule, ancestors of the modern day Inuit, through a visit to a 3D model of an ancient semi-subterranean whalebone house. |
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Mysticetes have large whalebone, as opposed to teeth, made of keratin. |
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At the core of the London dealer's Kunstkammern are rare and striking tribal pieces, such as this 18th-century Nuu-Chah-Nulth chief's whalebone sword club. |
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Balaenopterids diverged from the other families of suborder Mysticeti, also called the whalebone whales or great whales, as long ago as the middle Miocene. |
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Whalebone corsets, colonial uprisings, scurvy, press gangs, and monocles popping out in astonishment shall be the order of the day. |
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