Moby Dick;or, The Whale1952 |
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Page 213
... lance ( by the line attached to it ) , Stubb straightened it again and again by a few rapid blows against the gunwale , then again and again sent it into the whale . " Pull up - pull up ! " he now cried to the bowsman , as the waning ...
... lance ( by the line attached to it ) , Stubb straightened it again and again by a few rapid blows against the gunwale , then again and again sent it into the whale . " Pull up - pull up ! " he now cried to the bowsman , as the waning ...
Page 271
... lance called pitchpoling . Small sword , or broad sword , in all its exercises boasts nothing like it . It is only indis- pensable with an inveterate running whale ; its grand fact and feature is the wonderful distance to which the long ...
... lance called pitchpoling . Small sword , or broad sword , in all its exercises boasts nothing like it . It is only indis- pensable with an inveterate running whale ; its grand fact and feature is the wonderful distance to which the long ...
Page 272
... lance , yet it is seldom done ; and when done , is still less frequently successful , on account of the greater weight and inferior length of the harpoon as compared with the lance , which in effect become serious drawbacks . As a ...
... lance , yet it is seldom done ; and when done , is still less frequently successful , on account of the greater weight and inferior length of the harpoon as compared with the lance , which in effect become serious drawbacks . As a ...
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Ahab's aloft Bildad boat bones bows Bulkington cabin called Cape Horn Captain Ahab Captain Peleg Cetology Chapter chase chief mate creature crew cried Ahab Daggoo dark darted dead deck devil doubloon eyes feet fish fishery Flask forecastle Greenland gunwale hand harpooneer head heard heart instant iron Jonah lance Leviathan living look mast masthead mate Moby Dick Nantucket Nantucket ships Narwhal never night oars ocean once peculiar Pequod perils pull Queequeg Radney Ramadan Right Whale rolled round sail sailors savage seamen seemed seen sharks ship's shipmates side sight sleep soon sort soul Sperm Whale spermaceti spout stand Starbuck Steelkilt stood strange Stubb tail Tashtego tell thee thing thou thought turned vessel voyage whale ship whalemen White Whale wild wind