Sentence examples for going whaling from inspiring English sources

A small wooded islet at the centre once housed the Whaler's Shrine at which the Mowachaht conducted purification rituals before going whaling - rituals so secret even John didn't know of their existence.

In "Moby-Dick," Ishmael takes a lay of 1/300, but this is a joke; even a completely green hand was rarely offered less than 1/200, and Melville himself got 1/175 the first time he went whaling.

He went to sea at 13 and worked his way up to the position of boatsteerer, though by the age of 20 he swore "by all the saints on the calendar" that he would never go whaling again.

"There is very little doubt that Japan will go whaling in the next Antarctic season no matter what experts say about it".

Japan's government is further proposing to revamp their Antarctic hunts to supposedly meet better scientific scrutiny so they can go whaling again in 2015-16.

In a major breakthrough for the petroleum industry and loss for drilling opponents, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) in February 2012 approved Shell Gulf of Mexico, Inc.'s oil-spill response plan for the Chukchi Sea, which provides habitat for polar bears, walruses, and other wildlife, and a hunting ground for Alaska Natives who still go whaling in seal-skin boats.

But in countries like Japan, where the only meat in school lunches after World War II was fried whale and parboiled blubber, the right to go whaling has become an issue of national pride.

Since there seem to be few, if any, countries with an interest in more whale hunting, the countries that want to go whaling are pretty much doing what they want, ban or not.

"So goes whaling, so goes the town".

Basque whalers plied the waters off Newfoundland as early as the 1540s, and some Native American tribes may have gone whaling long before the Basques; but Dolin's history really begins in the 1620s, when English colonists began butchering whales that beached themselves or washed ashore.

"My dad wouldn't let me go whaling when I was six.