"Close to our bows, strange forms in the water darted hither and thither before us; while thick in our rear flew the inscrutable...

"Mysteriously jetted into the clear moonlight, or starlight, as the case might be; disappearing again for one whole day, or two days, or...

"The strange, upheaving, lifting tendency of the taffrail breeze filling the hollows of so many sails, made the buoyant, hovering deck...

"It was while gliding through these latter waters that one serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of...

“Who would have thought it, Flask!” cried Stubb; “if I had but one leg you would not catch me in a boat, unless maybe to stop the...

"Now, with the subordinate phantoms, what wonder remained soon waned away; for in a whaler wonders soon wane. Besides, now and then such...

"After many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as...

"Though not one of the oarsmen was then facing the life and death peril so close to them ahead, yet with their eyes on the intense...