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this ivory leg had at sea been fashioned from the polished bone of the sperm whale’s jaw

go down with him, and get what thou wantest thyself

What is yonder undetected villain’s marble mansion with a door-plate for a waif; what is that but a Fast-Fish?

the wild thrilling sounds that were heard, were the voices of newly drowned men in the sea

Oh, busy weaver! unseen weaver!—pause!—one word!—whither flows the fabric? what palace may it deck?

“The ship! The hearse!—the second hearse!” cried Ahab from the boat; “its wood could only be American!”

the skeleton of a sperm whale

you are experienced in these things, and I am not

Sometimes, nothing is injured but the man who is thus annihilated

the fate of the whalemen who had gone before me

it is pleasant to read about whales through their own spectacles

ice and icebergs all astern

Stealing unawares upon the whale in the fancied security of the middle of solitary seas, you find him unbent from the vast corpulence of his dignity, and kitten-like, he plays on the ocean as if it were a hearth.

It was unsafe to meddle with the corpses and ghosts of these creatures.

He lives on the sea, as prairie cocks in the prairie; he hides among the waves, he climbs them as chamois hunters climb the Alps.

a white man standing before him seemed a white flag come to beg truce of a fortress

we were now in that enchanted calm which they say lurks at the heart of every commotion

Then the whole world was the whale’s; and, king of creation, he left his wake along the present lines of the Andes and the Himmalehs.

Yes, a mighty change had come over the fish.

one serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver; and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery silence, not a solitude; on such a silent night a silvery jet was seen

for a moment or two the prodigious blood-dripping mass sways to and fro as if let down from the sky

The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.

Where, in the bottomless deeps, could he find the torn limbs of his brother?

Such is the endlessness, yea, the intolerableness of all earthly effort.

ye grim, phantom futures! Stand by me, hold me, bind me

It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation.

Ahab is lord over the level loadstone yet.

this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang

Oh, ye foolish! throw all these thunder-heads overboard, and then you will float light and right.

your noble conceptions of him are never insulted