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harpoon

«Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.»
«A whale is harpooned only when it spouts.»
«We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale.»
Author: John Hope | Keywords: catfish, harpoon, hooks, pin, river bank, whale
«Unlike children in other countries, the Eskimos played no game of war. They played with imaginary rifles and harpoons, but these were never directed against people but against the formidable beasts that haunted the vast wastes of their land.»