"After the ceremony was concluded upon the present occasion, I felt all the easier; a stone was rolled away from my heart. Besides, all...

"Ahab seized a loaded musket from the rack (forming part of most South-Sea-men’s cabin furniture), and pointing it towards Starbuck,...

Ahab: "Look ye, carpenter, I dare say thou callest thyself a right good workmanlike workman, eh? Well, then, will it speak thoroughly...

"There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast...

"Nor, at the time, had it failed to enter his monomaniac mind, that all the anguish of that then present suffering was but the direct...

"One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then, with me, writing...

"How vain and foolish, then, thought I, for timid untraveled man to try to comprehend aright this wondrous whale, by merely pouring over...

"But at this critical instant a sudden exclamation was heard that took every eye from the whale. With a start all glared at dark Ahab,...

"So strange a dreaminess did there then reign all over the ship and all over the sea, only broken by the intermitting dull sound of the...

"For even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight for their...