The swordfish are always harpooned from the end of the bowsprit of a sailing-vessel. |
It is not strange that when harpooned it should retaliate by attacking its assailant. |
She slipped a dirk into him in as matter-of-course a way as another person would have harpooned a rat! |
I woke up when I heard the mournful cry of a harpooned whale. |
The shark had apparently been harpooned at sea, and washed into the Humber. |
Although so large, and so formidably equipped, the swordfish often lazes on the surface of the water and can be harpooned. |