From Chapter 104 The Fossil Whale One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary...

From: The Chase- Third Day "Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides;...

The Chase - Third Day "Would now the wind but had a body; but all the things that most exasperate and outrage mortal man, all these...

From: The Chase - First Day "What soulless thing is this that laughs before a wreck? Man, man! did I not know thee brave as fearless fire...

From: The Symphony "Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is as an...

From: The Log and the Line "Come! I feel prouder leading thee by thy black hand, than though I grasped an Emperor’s!” Musing: Here is...

From: The Quadrant "'Well, well; I [Stubb] heard Ahab mutter, ‘Here some one thrusts these cards into these old hands of mine; swears...

From: Queequeg in His Coffin "And this tattooing [Queequeg's] had been the work of a departed prophet and seer of his island, who, by...

From: Ahab and Starbuck in The Cabin "'He waxes brave, but nevertheless obeys; most careful bravery that!' murmured Ahab, as Starbuck...

From: Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin "Ahab seized a loaded musket from the rack (forming part of most South-Sea-men’s cabin furniture),...