"It is a place also for profound mathematical meditation. It was in the left hand try-pot of the Pequod, with the soapstone diligently...

"During the night-watches some cynical old sailors will crawl into the try-pots and coil themselves away there for a nap. While employed...

"Besides her hoisted boats, an American whaler is outwardly distinguished by her try-works."

"Toes are scarce among veteran blubber-room men."

"Come; let us squeeze hands all round; nay, let us all squeeze ourselves into each other; let us squeeze ourselves universally into the...

"I forgot all about our horrible oath; in that inexpressible sperm, I washed my hands and my heart of it; I almost began to credit the...

"As I bathed my hands among those soft, gentle globules of infiltrated tissues, wove almost within the hour; as they richly broke to my...

"Hereby perhaps Stubb indirectly hinted, that though man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often...

"For the rest blame not Stubb too hardly. The thing is common in that fishery; and in the sequel of the narrative, it will then be seen...

"Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to...