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he swam fast, just under the surface with his high dorsal fin knifing through the water without wavering. (source)dorsal = back (indicating the fin that is on the back)
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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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A pair of dorsal guiders rose out of the aft section.† (source)
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Her massive dorsal fin towered above us like a mountain peak.† (source)
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Tentatively, I touched its dorsal fin.† (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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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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As he picked it out he noticed its unusually dense dorsal tufts.† (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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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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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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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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That evening he was within a feather-weight's turn of abandoning his road to the nearest station, and driving across that elevated dorsal line of South Wessex which divided him from his Tess's home.† (source)
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