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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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    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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    Old Stingo, I mused as she climbed upward, there must be some perversity in this dorsal fixation.†  (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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    A pair of dorsal guiders rose out of the aft section.†  (source)
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    The largest one came at the boat quickly, as if to attack, its dorsal fin rising out of the water by several inches, but it dipped below just before reaching us and glided underfoot with fearsome grace.†  (source)
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    semired wrasse sporting scales only at the bases of their dorsal and anal fins;†  (source)
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