He minds you somewhat of a juggler, balancing a long staff on his chin.
He minds you somewhat of a juggler, balancing a long staff on his chin.
There go the ships; there is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to play therein
and beyond, a black Angel of Doom was beating a book in a pulpit.
Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm!
the Right Whaleβs head bears a rather inelegant resemblance to a gigantic galliot-toed shoe
far too rich to supply a substitute for butter
others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces
his distended eyes turned full upon old Ahab
what disordered slippery decks of a whale-ship are comparable to the unspeakable carrion of those battle-fields
By and by
Ginger-jub! you gingerly rascal!
Up from the spray of thy ocean-perishingβstraight up, leaps thy apotheosis!
a whale must be near
Hand it me
he slewed round his boat and made after the leviathan lamp-feeders
If you attentively regard almost any quadrupedβs spine, you will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebrΓ¦ to a strung necklace of dwarfed skulls
Time itself now held long breaths with keen suspense.
Heaven have mercy on us allβPresbyterians and Pagans alikeβfor we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending
we are curing the wound, when whang come the arrows all round; Sagittarius, or the Archer, is amusing himself
this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub
the profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself
The next day was exceedingly still and sultry
For the present other matters press, and the best we can do now for the head, is to pray heaven the tackles may hold.
Hurrah! this is the way a fellow feels when heβs going to Davy Jonesβall a rush down an endless inclined plane!
treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure
curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas, as if blindly to clutch at any hapless object within reach
Look sharp, all of ye! There are whales hereabouts!
man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence
itβs better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one
It should not have been omitted that previous to completely stripping the body of the leviathan, he was beheaded.