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Moby-Dick
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  • Indeed, Uga III was immortalized in it, along with Rin Tin Tin, Man o' War, Moby Dick, Toto, and The White Rabbit.†   (source)
  • I kept Moby Dick on the desk and Whitman in my lap, but even being in English class couldn't help.†   (source)
  • In the paste literally dozens of epic novels have been written that have changed the course of history: Moby Dick.†   (source)
  • Then another guy appeared, much much younger and much much bigger, half a head taller even than Gyuri, Malaysian or Indonesian with a face tattoo and eyepopping diamonds in his ears and a black topknot on the crown of his head that made him look like one of the harpooners from Moby Dick, if one of the harpooners from Moby Dick had happened to be wearing velvet track pants and a peach satin baseball jacket.†   (source)
  • I guess I looked like Captain Ahab trapped in the harpoon lines after a trip to the ocean floor with Moby Dick.†   (source)
  • Like in Moby Dick?†   (source)
  • Say, did you ever hear the story about Moby Dick?†   (source)
  • Glancing at himself in the mirror, he thought he looked a little like some rough sailor out of Moby Dick.†   (source)
  • He was prepared, in his cynicism, to find Moby Dick unreadable—five hundred pages about chasing a whale?†   (source)
  • STUBB in Moby Dick PROLOGUE First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.†   (source)
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  • Lindsay takes her cup and sets it on a side table, on top of a worn copy of Moby Dick.†   (source)
  • They'd loaded the boat with coolers of food and beer, sunscreen, towels and hats, tubs of ice, and enough fishing gear to hook anything that might happen to cross the stern, including Moby Dick, Orca, and Jaws himself.†   (source)
  • …was a urologist for his urine, a lymphologist for his lymph, an endocrinologist for his endocrines, a psychologist for his psyche, a dermatologist for his derma; there was a pathologist for his pathos, a cystologist for his cysts, and a bald and pedantic cetologist from the zoology department at Harvard who had been shanghaied ruthlessly into the Medical Corps by a faulty anode in an I.B.M. machine and spent his sessions with the dying colonel trying to discuss Moby Dick with him.†   (source)
  • Like in Moby Dick?†   (source)
  • Like Captain Ahab hunting Moby Dick, Uncle Press waited for the quig.†   (source)
  • Within two minutes, I'd say, I was garbed all in the color of Moby Dick and vanilla ice cream.†   (source)
  • Or, if he preferred the nineteenth century, this same ox-cart driver could select Moby Dick by Herman Melville or The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.†   (source)
  • Well, there was once this huge white whale named Moby Dick ….†   (source)
  • I had English at the end of the day, seventh period, and we were just starting to read Moby Dick, so Dr. Holden was talking quite a lot about fishing in the nineteenth century.†   (source)
  • I limped through my physics and government finals the next day and then stayed up till 2 A.M. on Tuesday finishing my final reaction paper for English about Moby Dick.†   (source)
  • My only vaguely interesting class that day was English, when Dr. Holden completely ruined Moby Dick for me by incorrectly assuming we'd all read it and talking about Captain Ahab and his obsession with finding and killing this white whale.†   (source)
  • Of Moby Dick he had never heard.†   (source)
  • "Aye, breach your last to the sun, Moby Dick!" cried Ahab, "thy hour and thy harpoon are at hand!†   (source)
  • So with Moby Dick——two days he's floated——tomorrow will be the third.†   (source)
  • "Forehead to forehead I meet thee, this third time, Moby Dick!†   (source)
  • Moby Dick seeks thee not.†   (source)
  • In those newspapers short of copy, you saw the reappearance of every gigantic imaginary creature, from "Moby Dick," that dreadful white whale from the High Arctic regions, to the stupendous kraken whose tentacles could entwine a 500–ton craft and drag it into the ocean depths.†   (source)
  • "Sway me up, men; ye have been deceived; not Moby Dick casts one odd jet that way, and then disappears."†   (source)
  • The triumphant halloo of thirty buckskin lungs was heard, as——much nearer to the ship than the place of the imaginary jet, less than a mile ahead——Moby Dick bodily burst into view!†   (source)
  • As if to strike a quick terror into them, by this time being the first assailant himself, Moby Dick had turned, and was now coming for the three crews.†   (source)
  • "Give way!" cried Ahab to the oarsmen, and the boats darted forward to the attack; but maddened by yesterday's fresh irons that corroded in him, Moby Dick seemed combinedly possessed by all the angels that fell from heaven.†   (source)
  • As both steel and curse sank to the socket, as if sucked into a morass, Moby Dick sideways writhed; spasmodically rolled his nigh flank against the bow, and, without staving a hole in it, so suddenly canted the boat over, that had it not been for the elevated part of the gunwale to which he then clung, Ahab would once more have been tossed into the sea.†   (source)
  • But he looked too nigh the boat; for as if bent upon escaping with the corpse he bore, and as if the particular place of the last encounter had been but a stage in his leeward voyage, Moby Dick was now again steadily swimming forward; and had almost passed the ship,——which thus far had been sailing in the contrary direction to him, though for the present her headway had been stopped.†   (source)
  • Accordingly, the boats now made for her, and were soon swayed up to their cranes——the two parts of the wrecked boat having been previously secured by her——and then hoisting everything to her side, and stacking her canvas high up, and sideways outstretching it with stun-sails, like the double-jointed wings of an albatross; the Pequod bore down in the leeward wake of Moby Dick.†   (source)
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  • Whom call you Moby Dick?'   (source)
    Moby Dick = not tracked in this book
  • God hunt us all, if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his death!   (source)
  • Captain Ahab, I have heard of Moby Dick—but it was not Moby Dick that took off thy leg?   (source)
  • Fair for death and doom,—THAT'S fair for Moby Dick.   (source)
  • Death and devils! men, it is Moby Dick ye have seen—Moby Dick—Moby Dick!   (source)
  • —lower not when I do; when branded Ahab gives chase to Moby Dick.   (source)
  • MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville ETYMOLOGY.   (source)
  • And I'm thinking Moby Dick doesn't bite so much as he swallows.   (source)
  • In the short gam that ensued she gave us strong news of Moby Dick.   (source)
  • It seemed not a whale; and yet is this Moby Dick? thought Daggoo.   (source)
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  • Moby Dick that brought me to this dead stump I stand on now.   (source)
  • I have here two pledges that I shall yet slay Moby Dick and survive it.   (source)
  • The WHITE Whale—a Sperm Whale—Moby Dick, have ye seen him?   (source)
  • "Captain Ahab," said Tashtego, "that white whale must be the same that some call Moby Dick."   (source)
  • Oh Moby Dick, I clutch thy heart at last!   (source)
  • For the peculiar snow-white brow of Moby Dick, and his snow-white hump, could not but be unmistakable.   (source)
  • He struck out through the spray, and, for an instant, was dimly seen through that veil, wildly seeking to remove himself from the eye of Moby Dick.   (source)
  • —"Sail on the"—but that moment a breaking sea dashed on him from Moby Dick, and whelmed him for the time.   (source)
  • But what's this long face about, Mr. Starbuck; wilt thou not chase the white whale? art not game for Moby Dick?   (source)
  • With oars apeak, and paddles down, the sheets of their sails adrift, the three boats now stilly floated, awaiting Moby Dick's reappearance.   (source)
  • But, at some distance, Moby Dick rose again, with some tatters of Radney's red woollen shirt, caught in the teeth that had destroyed him.   (source)
  • "Aye, aye!" shouted the harpooneers and seamen, running closer to the excited old man: "A sharp eye for the white whale; a sharp lance for Moby Dick!"   (source)
  • Drink, ye harpooneers! drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow—Death to Moby Dick!   (source)
  • It was Moby Dick's open mouth and scrolled jaw; his vast, shadowed bulk still half blending with the blue of the sea.   (source)
  • "Who told thee that?" cried Ahab; then pausing, "Aye, Starbuck; aye, my hearties all round; it was Moby Dick that dismasted me;"   (source)
  • It seemed that the Jeroboam had not long left home, when upon speaking a whale-ship, her people were reliably apprised of the existence of Moby Dick, and the havoc he had made.   (source)
  • Almost forgetting for the moment all thoughts of Moby Dick, we now gazed at the most wondrous phenomenon which the secret seas have hitherto revealed to mankind.   (source)
  • And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg, as a mower a blade of grass in the field.   (source)
  • And who could tell whether, in that congregated caravan, Moby Dick himself might not temporarily be swimming, like the worshipped white-elephant in the coronation procession of the Siamese!   (source)
  • So that Monsoons, Pampas, Nor'-Westers, Harmattans, Trades; any wind but the Levanter and Simoon, might blow Moby Dick into the devious zig-zag world-circle of the Pequod's circumnavigating wake.   (source)
  • 'Moby Dick!' cried Don Sebastian;   (source)
  • All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.   (source)
  • One of the wild suggestions referred to, as at last coming to be linked with the White Whale in the minds of the superstitiously inclined, was the unearthly conceit that Moby Dick was ubiquitous; that he had actually been encountered in opposite latitudes at one and the same instant of time.   (source)
  • But almost everybody supposed that this particular preparative heedfulness in Ahab must only be with a view to the ultimate chase of Moby Dick; for he had already revealed his intention to hunt that mortal monster in person.   (source)
  • "Moby Dick?" shouted Ahab.   (source)
  • But as if perceiving this stratagem, Moby Dick, with that malicious intelligence ascribed to him, sidelingly transplanted himself, as it were, in an instant, shooting his pleated head lengthwise beneath the boat.   (source)
  • For there and then, for several consecutive years, Moby Dick had been periodically descried, lingering in those waters for awhile, as the sun, in its annual round, loiters for a predicted interval in any one sign of the Zodiac.   (source)
  • "Here!" cried Starbuck, seizing Stubb by the shoulder, and pointing his hand towards the weather bow, "markest thou not that the gale comes from the eastward, the very course Ahab is to run for Moby Dick?"   (source)
  • When this interlude was over, Captain Mayhew began a dark story concerning Moby Dick; not, however, without frequent interruptions from Gabriel, whenever his name was mentioned, and the crazy sea that seemed leagued with him.   (source)
  • And thus, through the serene tranquillities of the tropical sea, among waves whose hand-clappings were suspended by exceeding rapture, Moby Dick moved on, still withholding from sight the full terrors of his submerged trunk, entirely hiding the wrenched hideousness of his jaw.   (source)
  • "Why, do ye see, the old man is hard bent after that White Whale, and the devil there is trying to come round him, and get him to swap away his silver watch, or his soul, or something of that sort, and then he'll surrender Moby Dick."   (source)
  • Well; after he sounded, we didn't see him again for some time; in fact, as I before hinted, I didn't then know what whale it was that had served me such a trick, till some time afterwards, when coming back to the Line, we heard about Moby Dick—as some call him—and then I knew it was he.   (source)
  • As with a low sucking sound it slowly disappeared again, Starbuck still gazing at the agitated waters where it had sunk, with a wild voice exclaimed—"Almost rather had I seen Moby Dick and fought him, than to have seen thee, thou white ghost!"   (source)
  • But soon resuming his horizontal attitude, Moby Dick swam swiftly round and round the wrecked crew; sideways churning the water in his vengeful wake, as if lashing himself up to still another and more deadly assault.   (source)
  • Granting that the White Whale fully incites the hearts of this my savage crew, and playing round their savageness even breeds a certain generous knight-errantism in them, still, while for the love of it they give chase to Moby Dick, they must also have food for their more common, daily appetites.   (source)
  • Where is Moby Dick?   (source)
  • CHAPTER 41 Moby Dick.   (source)
  • So that though Moby Dick had in a former year been seen, for example, on what is called the Seychelle ground in the Indian ocean, or Volcano Bay on the Japanese Coast; yet it did not follow, that were the Pequod to visit either of those spots at any subsequent corresponding season, she would infallibly encounter him there.   (source)
  • Yet as of late the Sperm Whale fishery had been marked by various and not unfrequent instances of great ferocity, cunning, and malice in the monster attacked; therefore it was, that those who by accident ignorantly gave battle to Moby Dick; such hunters, perhaps, for the most part, were content to ascribe the peculiar terror he bred, more, as it were, to the perils of the Sperm Whale fishery at large, than to the individual cause.   (source)
  • Though, in overseeing the pursuit of this whale, Captain Ahab had evinced his customary activity, to call it so; yet now that the creature was dead, some vague dissatisfaction, or impatience, or despair, seemed working in him; as if the sight of that dead body reminded him that Moby Dick was yet to be slain; and though a thousand other whales were brought to his ship, all that would not one jot advance his grand, monomaniac object.   (source)
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