bl-o-o-o-o-w

Updated: May 24, 2025

As I listened breathlessly other sounds of the same character but in different tones joined in, human voices monotonously intoning in long drawn-out expirations the single word "bl-o-o-o-o-w." Then came a hurricane of noise overhead, and adjurations in no gentle language to the sleepers to "tumble up lively there, no skulking, sperm whales."

Frank T. Bullen - The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales