"Though the word ambergris is but the French compound for grey amber, yet the two substances are quite distinct."

"And this, good friends, is ambergris, worth a gold guinea an ounce to any druggist."

"It’s against my principles to drink with the man I’ve diddled."

"But is the Queen a mermaid, to be presented with a tail? An allegorical meaning may lurk here."

"From the books of the Laws of England, which taken along with the context, means, that of all whales captured by anybody on the coast of...

"What to the ostentatious smuggling verbalists are the thoughts of thinkers but Loose-Fish? What is the great globe itself but a...

"What was America in 1492 but a Loose-Fish, in which Columbus struck the Spanish standard by way of wailing it for his royal master and...

"Likewise a fish is technically fast when it bears a waif, or any other recognized symbol of possession; so long as the party wailing it...

"First: What is a Fast-Fish? Alive or dead a fish is technically fast, when it is connected with an occupied ship or boat, by any medium...

"A Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it."