"But the suddenly started Pequod was not quick enough to escape the sound of the splash that the corpse soon made as it struck the sea;...

"So Ahab’s proceedings in this matter were not unusual; the only strange thing about them seemed to be, that Starbuck, almost the one...

"I have no objection to any person’s religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person,...

"Such an added, gliding strangeness began to invest the thin Fedallah now; such ceaseless shudderings shook him; that the men looked...

"As the unsetting polar star, which through the livelong, arctic, six months’ night sustains its piercing, steady, central gaze; so...

"And now that all his successive meetings with various ships contrastingly concurred to show the demoniac indifference with which the...

"There is that in thee, poor lad, which I feel too curing to my malady. Like cures like; and for this hunt, my malady becomes my most...

"Here now’s the very dreaded symbol of grim death, by a mere hap, made the expressive sign of the help and hope of most endangered life....

"So man’s seconds tick! Oh! how immaterial are all materials! What things real are there, but imponderable thoughts?" Musing: These are...

“Then tell me; art thou not an arrant, all-grasping, intermeddling, monopolizing, heathenish old scamp, to be one day making legs, and...