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Quotes About Narwhal

I," said Lymond, in the voice unmistakably his which honeyed his most lethal thoughts, "I am a narwhal looking for my virgin. I have sucked up the sea like Charybdis and failing other entertainment will spew it three times daily, for a fee.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Okay," I said slowly, "but what the hell would you mate a horse with to get a unicorn, because I don't see horses and narwhales doing the dirty boogie.
~ Jonathan Maberry
Marcel dropped a white plastic bag onto the table. It bounced slightly on landing. "Muktuk," Nirlungayuk said approvingly. It was a piece of narwhal skin, uncooked.
~ Mary Roach
Look! Aqualad is riding into town on a narwhal!
~ Bob Haney
My own opinion is, that however this one-sided horn may really be used by the Narwhal—however that may be—it would certainly be very convenient to him for a folder in reading pamphlets.
~ Herman Melville
Narwhal with a soft whine of the impellers. All of their lights were focused on the seafloor.
~ Clive Cussler
It's all along of the unicorn's horn – it's all along of the glorious hand. Huzzay, three times huzzay for the doctor!' Lord, how they cheered their surgeon! It was he who had brought the narwhal's tusk aboard: and the severed hand, the Hand of Glory, was his property: both symbolized (and practically guaranteed) immense good fortune, virility, safety from poison or any disease you chose to name: and both had proved their worth.
~ Patrick O'Brian