"Omen? omen?-the dictionary! If the gods think to speak outright to man, they will honorably speak outright; not shake their heads, and...

"Dragged into Stubb's boat with blood-shot, blinded eyes, the white brine caking in his wrinkles; the long tension of Ahab's bodily...

“It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.” ― John Steinbeck Musing: Today would be my...

"The sight of the splintered boat seemed to madden him, as the blood of grapes and mulberries cast before Antiochus's elephants in the...

"Ripplingly withdrawing from his prey, Moby Dick now lay at a little distance, vertically thrusting his oblong white head up and down in...

"Through and through; through every plank and each rib, it thrilled for an instant, the whale obliquely lying on his back, in the manner...

"Ahab could discover no sign in the sea. But suddenly as he peered down and down into its depths, he profoundly saw a white living spot...

"So in this vale of Death, God girds us round; and over all our gloom, the sun of Righteousness still shines a beacon and a hope. If we...

"There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things; look here,-three peaks as proud as...

"There is, one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seems to speak of some hidden soul beneath [ . ....