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dorsal
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    Their dorsal fins, some as tall as a man, cut the glassy surface within spitting distance of the rail.†  (source)
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    Curious, he dropped a hand into the water and laid it lightly on a passing shark, feeling its back and dorsal fin as it slid beneath him.†  (source)
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    But there was still the quiet dusty phone booth and the old-fashioned black receiver with its sharp dorsal ridge.†  (source)
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    Old Stingo, I mused as she climbed upward, there must be some perversity in this dorsal fixation.†  (source)
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    The same thing may be observed in fish, when stroked along the dorsal fin, and even in cats; although in higher organisms the results are of course more complex.†  (source)
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    When they went through Pamphrey's Pass and into Kingcome Inlet, which was the last, Mark saw the dorsal fin of a killer whale cruising slowly down the far side.†  (source)
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    He has a peculiar way of showing his dorsal hooked fin in swimming, which looks something like a Roman nose.†  (source)
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    Her massive dorsal fin towered above us like a mountain peak.†  (source)
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    Except in Hollywood movies like Jaws, it is very rare for sharks in the wild to knife through the water with their dorsal fin exposed.†  (source)
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    Whenever Merlyn and his companion swam past them, they raised their spiky dorsal fins in menace, and only lowered them when they saw that Merlyn was a tench.†  (source)
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    semired wrasse sporting scales only at the bases of their dorsal and anal fins;†  (source)
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    And then, every morning, he sets himself afresh to the task of earning his bread; and while his hands earn his bread, his dorsal column gains pride, his brain gathers ideas.†  (source)
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    May your circulation proceed unchecked and particularly the dorsal carpal branch of the ulnar artery, in which connection, comrade, Prof.†  (source)
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