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being laid upon the printed page, I have sometimes pleased myself with fancying it exerted a magnifying influence

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with blue lips and blood-shot eyes the exhausted savage at last climbs up the chains and stands all dripping and involuntarily trembling over the side

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when the second iron is thrown overboard, it becomes a dangling, sharp-edged terror, skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale

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I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.

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“If you make the least damn bit of noise,” replied Samuel, “I will send you to hell.”

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Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fisheries any lad with lean brow and hollow eye

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a wave has such a great long start before it leaps, all round the world it runs, and then comes the spring!

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with a rapid, nameless impulse, in a superb lofty arch the bright steel spans the foaming distance, and quivers in the life spot of the whale

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The sea was as a crucible of molten gold, that bubblingly leaps with light and heat.

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every strange, half-seen, gliding, beautiful thing that eludes him; every dimly-discovered, uprising fin of some undiscernible form, seems to him the embodiment of those elusive thoughts

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Lord, think of having half an acre of stomach-ache!

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But why pester one with all this reasoning on the subject? Speak out!

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Alike, joy and sorrow, hope and fear, seemed ground to finest dust, and powdered, for the time, in the clamped mortar of Ahab’s iron soul.

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all this is both foolish and unnecessary

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But neither great Washington, nor Napoleon, nor Nelson, will answer a single hail from below

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Ginger!—what the devil is ginger? Sea-coal? firewood?—lucifer matches?—tinder?—gunpowder?—what the devil is ginger, I say

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there no conceivable time or occasion when you will find them in such countless numbers, and in gayer or more jovial spirits, than around a dead sperm whale

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But will any whaleman believe these stories?

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tossing like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves but made so by their restlessness

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everything was filled with sperm, except the captain’s pantaloons pockets

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and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation

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Whether that mark was born with him, or whether it was the scar left by some desperate wound, no one could certainly say.

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Ahab is for ever Ahab, man. This whole act’s immutably decreed.

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the villanous green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom

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his vindictiveness towards the White Whale might have possibly extended itself in some degree to all sperm whales

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for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make

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the Right Whale’s head bears a rather inelegant resemblance to a gigantic galliot-toed shoe.

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into this noiselessness came Ahab alone

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copied verbatim from my right arm, where I had them tattooed

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The dark ocean and swelling waters were nothing

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when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least

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Touching that monstrous bulk of the whale or ork we have received nothing certain.

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Such large virtue lurks in these small things

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It was in Queen Anne’s time that the bone was in its glory, the farthingale being then all the fashion.

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