back-fin

The baleen, hump, back-fin, and teeth; these are things whose peculiarities are indiscriminately dispersed among all sorts of whales, without any record to what may be the nature of their structure in other and more essential particulars.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

When his back-fin travels to his tail -- so -- he swallows up the blade, even as the whale swallowed Gaffer Jonah ...

Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900

When his back-fin travels to his tail — so — he swallows up the blade, even as the whale swallowed Gaffer Jonah ....

Puck of Pook’s Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900

"Indeed it is -- the back-fin of one at least -- and he must have heard you, for he seems impatient to join you in your little trip to the islands."

The Island Queen 1859

This, however, occasioned little or no anxiety to Betsy Waroonga, for she was not an anxious mother; but when, raising her eyes a little higher, she beheld the tip of the back-fin of a shark describing lively circles in the water as if it had scented the tender morsel and were searching for it, her easy indifference vanished.

The Madman and the Pirate Arthur Twidle 1859

No sounds were heard save the dull roar of the breaker that fell, at long regular intervals, on the seaward side of the reef, and no motion was visible except the back-fin of a shark as it cut

The Madman and the Pirate Arthur Twidle 1859

The baleen, hump, back-fin, and teeth; these are things whose peculiarities are indiscriminately dispersed among all sorts of whales, without any regard to what may be the nature of their structure in other and more essential particulars.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

The baleen, hump, back-fin, and teeth; these are things whose peculiarities are indiscriminately dispersed among all sorts of whales, without any regard to what may be the nature of their structure in other and more essential particulars.

Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

The baleen, hump, back-fin, and teeth; these are things whose peculiarities are indiscriminately dispersed among all sorts of whales, without any regard to what may be the nature of their structure in other and more essential particulars.

Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

That black wheel was part of his back, as he turned down; and the tooth on it was his back-fin.

Madam How and Lady Why Charles Kingsley 1847