"There she blows! there! there! there! she blows! she blows!" "Where-away?" "On the lee-beam, about two miles off! a school of them!" Instantly all was commotion. The Sperm Whale blows as a clock ticks, with the same undeviating and reliable uniformity. And thereby whalemen distinguish this fish from other tribes of his genus. "There go flukes!"
This is quoted in the graphic novel "Bone," volume 3 (Eyes of the Storm), chapters 1-2. The same sequence also plays on Pip going overboard and the final episode with the coffin.
See also the "October 13" example in "Extracts"
