... MOBY DICK
Herman Melville
CHAPTER 4
The Counterpane
Upon waking next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg's ... thought I had
been his wife. The counterpane was of patchwork, full of odd little parti-colored
squares and triangles; and this arm of his tattooed all over with an interminable
Cretan labyrinth
... mid most of them all, one grand hooded
phantom, like a snow hill in the air.
MOBY DICK
Herman Melville
CHAPTER 1
Loomings
Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- ... nearly the same feelings towards
the ocean with me.
There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as
Indian isles by coral reefs- commerce surrounds i...
...
swinging sign had a poverty-stricken sort of creak to it, I thought that here was
MOBY DICK
Herman Melville
CHAPTER 2
The Carpet-Bag
I stuffed a shirt or two into my old carpet-bag, tucked ... a candle moving about in a tomb. At this hour of the
night, of the last day of the week, that quarter of the town proved all but
deserted. But presently I came to a smoky light proce...
...
doubt, before a great while, he would follow me. But previous to turning in, I
MOBY DICK
Herman Melville
CHAPTER 17
The Ramadan
As Queequeg's Ramadan, or Fasting and Humiliation, ... during which time I labored to show Queequeg that all these Lents,
Ramadans, and prolonged ham-squattings in cold, cheerless rooms were stark
nonsense; bad for the health; useless for t...
...
patch, or save an end of tarred twine, which otherwise might have been wasted.
MOBY DICK
Herman Melville
CHAPTER 18
His Mark
As we were walking down the end of the wharf towards the
...
But Ahab, my Captain, still moves before me in all his Nantucket grimness and
MOBY DICK
HERMAN MELVILLE
CHAPTER 33
The Specksynder
Concerning the officers of the whale-craft, ... social equal.
Now, the grand distinction between officer and man at sea, is this- the first lives
aft, the last forward. Hence, in whale-ships and merchantmen alike, the mates
have thei...
... piece against the skirts of his jacket, as if to heighten its lustre,
MOBY DICK
HERMAN MELVILLE
CHAPTER 36
The Quarter-Deck
(Enter Ahab: Then, all)
It was not a great while after ... sheep-
shearing; aye, Tashtego, and he fan-tails like a split jib in a squall. Death and
devils! men, it is Moby Dick ye have seen- Moby Dick- Moby Dick! "
"Captain Aha...
... foolish pride
MOBY DICK
HERMAN MELVILLE
CHAPTER 83
Jonah Historically Regarded
Reference was made to the historical story of Jonah and the whale in the
preceding chapter. Now some ... some sceptical Greeks and Romans,
who, standing out from the orthodox pagans of their times, equally doubted the
story of Hercules and the whale, and Arion and the dolphin; and yet the...