He issued the command, and Seawolfwallowed her, clumsily up, her motion slow and ungainly, barely control, a wounded whale with a harpoon jutting her backside.

Maybe he was floundering down there like a wounded whale, surrounded by a ring of explosive harpoons.

It shows a six-man boat alongside a wounded whale, the hunt at its climax.

Behind him the Martian laughed like a wounded whale.

But like a wounded whale that shook off a cloud of harpoons and swam on, the United States absorbed the punishment they dished out without so much as a fractional drop in speed.

A wounded whale can still move furiously fast upon the waves and can tow a boat beyond the reach of help.

A mate must always approach a wounded whale from the leeward side.

I stumbled across the gallery floor while he thrashed like a beached and wounded whale.

The boats now gathering about the listing crippled ship almost like sharks feasting on a wounded whale or so it appeared to me.

The side of the steps slanted it, and the cab floundered like a wounded whale.