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Page 8: MONTAIGNE. --APOLOGY FOR RAIMOND SEBOND. "Let us fly, let ...
Page 15: If we compare land animals in respect to magnitude, with t...
Page 22: ELIZABETH OAKES SMITH. "The quantity of line withdrawn fro...
Page 29: So be cheery, my lads, let your hearts never fail, While t...
Page 36: It is out of the idolatrous dotings of the old Egyptians u...
Page 43: Where else but from Nantucket did those aboriginal whaleme...
Page 50: On one side hung a very large oilpainting so thoroughly be...
Page 57: He never eats dumplings, he don't--he eats nothing but ste...
Page 64: Thinks I, I'll wait awhile; he must be dropping in before ...
Page 71: But what is this on the chest? I took it up, and held it c...
Page 78: Presently, after many hasty snatches into the fire, and st...
Page 85: But she was the best and most conscientious of stepmothers...
Page 92: And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about ...
Page 99: Yes; all these brave houses and flowery gardens came from ...
Page 106: And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove...
Page 113: I saw the opening maw of hell, With endless pains and sorr...
Page 120: He rings every coin to find a counterfeit. Not a forger, a...
Page 127: But again he leaned over towards the people, and bowing hi...
Page 134: But savages are strange beings; at times you do not know e...
Page 141: For this reason a sleeping apartment should never be furni...
Page 148: His story being ended with his pipe's last dying puff, Que...
Page 155: He say," said I, "that you came near kill-e that man there...
Page 162: For years he knows not the land; so that when he comes to ...
Page 169: Ever since young Stiggs coming from that unfort'nt v'y'ge ...
Page 176: Such eye-wrinkles are very effectual in a scowl. "Is this ...
Page 183: Seeing me so determined, he expressed his willingness to s...
Page 190: I thought him the queerest old Quaker I ever saw, especial...
Page 197: Fetch him along, and we'll look at him." "What lay does he...
Page 204: I tried to open it, but it was fastened inside. "Queequeg,...
Page 211: You'll starve; you'll kill yourself, Queequeg." But not a ...
Page 218: I don't know anything about Deacon Deuteronomy or his meet...
Page 225: He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched...
Page 232: Somehow, the sight of him struck me so, that I said nothin...
Page 239: It was Elijah. "Going aboard?" "Hands off, will you," said...
Page 246: What Captain?--Ahab?" "Who but him indeed?" I was going to...
Page 253: They were full of hope and fruition. Spite of this frigid ...
Page 260: If a stranger were introduced into any miscellaneous metro...
Page 267: The grandmother of Benjamin Franklin was Mary Morrel; afte...
Page 274: Aye, aye," said Stubb, the second mate, "Starbuck, there, ...
Page 281: So utterly lost was he to all sense of reverence for the m...
Page 288: This was strangely heightened at times by the ragged Elija...
Page 295: The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, re...
Page 302: How could one look at Ahab then, seated on that tripod of ...
Page 309: Utter confusion exists among the historians of this animal...
Page 316: But as these pig-fish are a noisy, contemptible set, mostl...
Page 323: Thus, the sperm whale and the humpbacked whale, each has a...
Page 330: Originally it was in itself accounted an object of great c...
Page 337: The Specksnyder. Concerning the officers of the whale-craf...
Page 344: Flask," follows after his predecessors. But the third Emir...
Page 351: Commonly, after seeing the harpooneers furnished with all ...
Page 358: The worthy Obed tells us, that in the early times of the w...
Page 365: Beware of such an one, I say; your whales must be seen bef...
Page 372: But, they were all eagerness again, as Ahab, now half-revo...
Page 379: Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. ...
Page 386: I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks...
Page 393: Starbuck? Aye, aye, sir--(ASIDE) he's my superior, he has ...
Page 400: RECLINING ON A MAT.) Hail, holy nakedness of our dancing g...
Page 407: Yet as of late the Sperm Whale fishery had been marked by ...
Page 414: Nor is it to be gainsaid, that in some of these instances ...
Page 421: Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thin...
Page 428: John, white robes are given to the redeemed, and the four-...
Page 435: Nor can it be questioned from what stands on legendary rec...
Page 442: Much the same is it with the backwoodsman of the West, who...
Page 449: Grin away; we'll see what turns up. Hark ye, Cabaco, there...
Page 456: For there and then, for several consecutive years, Moby Di...
Page 463: I say I, myself, have known three instances similar to thi...
Page 470: His aspect was most horrible, and such as indicated resent...
Page 477: Again, it is very often observed that, if the sperm whale,...
Page 484: Had they been strictly held to their one final and romanti...
Page 491: One of the men selected for shipkeepers--that is, those no...
Page 498: Starbuck! larboard boat there, ahoy! a word with ye, sir, ...
Page 505: He withdrew it from his hatband, where he always wore it a...
Page 512: That's his hump. THERE, THERE, give it to him!" whispered ...
Page 519: Queequeg," said I, "come along, you shall be my lawyer, ex...
Page 526: CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout. Days, weeks passed, and unde...
Page 533: Meantime, the crew driven from the forward part of the shi...
Page 540: If two strangers crossing the Pine Barrens in New York Sta...
Page 547: Merely make a spread angle of two poles, and you cannot st...
Page 554: Thus, gentlemen, though an inlander, Steelkilt was wild-oc...
Page 561: Any man who has gone sailor in a whale-ship will understan...
Page 568: Nor does it at all diminish the curiousness of this matter...
Page 575: Shut us up again, will ye!' cried Steelkilt. "'Oh certainl...
Page 582: He was in Radney the chief mate's watch; and as if the inf...
Page 589: The ship's company being reduced to but a handful, the cap...
Page 596: George's; ever since then has something of the same sort o...
Page 603: And, not to speak of the highly presumable difference of c...
Page 610: The natural aptitude of the French for seizing the picture...
Page 617: Then, again, in mountainous countries where the traveller ...
Page 624: Consider also the devilish brilliance and beauty of many o...
Page 631: Of late years the Manilla rope has in the American fishery...
Page 638: And if you be a philosopher, though seated in the whale-bo...
Page 645: An instant before, Stubb had swiftly caught two additional...
Page 652: It is then they change places; and the headsman, the chief...
Page 659: But this difficulty is ingeniously overcome: a small, stro...
Page 666: That's no way to convert sinners, cook!" "Who dat? Den pre...
Page 673: You said up there, didn't you? and now look yourself, and ...
Page 680: But Stubb, he eats the whale by its own light, does he? an...
Page 687: One of the attending harpooneers now advances with a long,...
Page 694: How wonderful is it then--except after explanation--that t...
Page 701: It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the m...
Page 708: The unflinching earnestness with which he declared these t...
Page 715: Thus, most letters never reach their mark; and many are on...
Page 722: And right in among those sharks was Queequeg; who often pu...
Page 729: So close did the monster come to the hull, that at first i...
Page 736: Nor all the coopers in creation couldn't show hoops enough...
Page 743: You would find that you could only command some thirty deg...
Page 750: As in general shape the noble Sperm Whale's head may be co...
Page 757: I would have you investigate it now with the sole view of ...
Page 764: I know not with what fine and costly material the Heidelbu...
Page 771: The next, a loud splash announced that my brave Queequeg h...
Page 778: But in the great Sperm Whale, this high and mighty god-lik...
Page 785: From its relative situation then, I should call this high ...
Page 792: Halloo, here's grass growing in the boat's bottom--and by ...
Page 799: Seems it credible that by three such thin threads the grea...
Page 806: Meantime everything in the Pequod was aslant. To cross to ...
Page 813: George might have been only a large seal, or sea-horse; be...
Page 820: I say it only shows his foolish, impious pride, and abomin...
Page 827: Wherefore the necessity for his periodical visits to the u...
Page 834: And I know one, who coming into still closer contact with ...
Page 841: If it be made in the unobstructed air, especially if it de...
Page 848: The shores of the Straits of Sunda are unsupplied with tho...
Page 855: But when the swift Pequod, with a fresh leading wind, was ...
Page 862: On both sides the sea came in at the wounded planks, but w...
Page 869: It is sometimes the custom when fast to a whale more than ...
Page 876: As ashore, the ladies often cause the most terrible duels ...
Page 883: These are scientific commentaries; but the commentaries of...
Page 890: In the first place, in curious proof of the fact that the ...
Page 897: I thought they would keel up before long." Presently, the ...
Page 904: But come aboard, and mayhap he'll believe you, if he won't...
Page 911: Stubb was beginning to look disappointed, especially as th...
Page 918: Now, in the whale ship, it is not every one that goes in t...
Page 925: Because there were two boats in his wake, and he supposed,...
Page 932: It is called slobgollion; an appellation original with the...
Page 939: Removing the fire-board from the front of the try-works, t...
Page 946: But he who dodges hospitals and jails, and walks fast cros...
Page 953: Yes; and many is the time, when, after the severest uninte...
Page 960: And all from looking at a piece of gold, which did I have ...
Page 967: Ha, ha! old Ahab! the White Whale; he'll nail ye! This is ...
Page 974: Seeing how matters stood, and what a noble great whale it ...
Page 981: So that what you take for the White Whale's malice is only...
Page 988: I fancied that you could feel them, and roll them about in...
Page 995: I confess, that since Jonah, few whalemen have penetrated ...
Page 1002: The skeleton dimensions I shall now proceed to set down ar...
Page 1009: Having already described him in most of his present habita...
Page 1016: In this Afric Temple of the Whale I leave you, reader, and...
Page 1023: But though for some time past a number of these whales, no...
Page 1030: This done, the carpenter received orders to have the leg c...
Page 1037: SLABS OF IVORY, LEATHER STRAPS, PADS, SCREWS, AND VARIOUS ...
Page 1044: How dost thou know that some entire, living, thinking thin...
Page 1051: Devils! Dost thou then so much as dare to critically think...
Page 1058: He added, that he shuddered at the thought of being buried...
Page 1065: With a wild whimsiness, he now used his coffin for a sea-c...
Page 1072: Oh, woe on woe! Oh, Death, why canst thou not sometimes be...
Page 1079: But, as Ahab looked up, he slid aside. "What's that bunch ...
Page 1086: And that same day, too, gazing far down from his boat's si...
Page 1093: For next day after encountering the gay Bachelor, whales w...
Page 1100: Now, in that Japanese sea, the days in summer are as fresh...
Page 1107: But I am not a brave man; never said I was a brave man; I ...
Page 1114: The corpusants have mercy on us all," cried Stubb, again. ...
Page 1121: The wind rises, but it has not got up to my table-lands ye...
Page 1128: Ere knocking at his state-room, he involuntarily paused be...
Page 1135: Standing behind him Starbuck looked, and lo! the two compa...
Page 1142: The Manxman took the reel, and holding it high up, by the ...
Page 1149: The Christian or civilized part of the crew said it was me...
Page 1156: Hem! I'll do the job, now, tenderly. I'll have me--let's s...
Page 1163: Have ye seen a whale-boat adrift?" Throttling his joy, Aha...
Page 1170: But by her still halting course and winding, woeful way, y...
Page 1177: The clothes that the night had wet, the next day's sunshin...
Page 1184: As she drew nigh, all eyes were fixed upon her broad beams...
Page 1191: When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of so...
Page 1198: T'gallant sails!--stunsails! alow and aloft, and on both s...
Page 1205: It was Moby Dick's open mouth and scrolled jaw; his vast, ...
Page 1212: The harpoon," said Ahab, half way rising, and draggingly l...
Page 1219: And, in these cases, somewhat as a pilot, when about losin...
Page 1226: Mr. Starbuck, the ship is thine--keep away from the boats,...
Page 1233: Upon mustering the company, the Parsee was not there. "The...
Page 1240: These warm Trade Winds, at least, that in the clear heaven...
Page 1247: Heart of wrought steel!" murmured Starbuck gazing over the...
Page 1254: Pull on! 'tis the better rest, the shark's jaw than the yi...
Page 1261: Ho, ho! from all your furthest bounds, pour ye now in, ye ...