...e aloft to the royal mast with your hearts; for your friends who have gone before are clearing out the seven storied heavens, and making refugees of ... ...en Voyages to Spitzbergen, in Purchass. “In their way they saw many whales sporting in the ocean, and in wantonness fuzzing up the water through their... ...ar 1690 some persons were on a high hill observing the whales spouting and sporting with each other, when one observed; there — pointing to the sea — ... ...nough. It touches one’s sense of honor, particularly if you come of an old established family in the land, the Van Rensselaers, or Randolphs, or Hardi... ...g Queequeg’s pagan arm thrown round me. But at length all the past night’s events soberly recurred, one by one, in fixed reality, and then I lay only a... ...g too without his regular meals. “Mrs. Hussey,” said I, “he’s alive at all events; so leave us, if you please, and I will see to this strange affair m... ...htened at times by the ragged Elijah’s diabolical incoherences uninvitedly recurring to me, with a subtle energy I could not have before conceived of.... ...the plagues of Egypt. But fortunately the special point I here seek can be established upon testimony entirely independent of my own. That point is th... ...y ef ficient in those thousand nameless mechanical emergencies continually recurring in a large ship, upon a three or four years’ voyage, in unciviliz...

...e aloft to the royal-mast with your hearts; for your friends who have gone before are clearing out the seven-storied heavens, and making refugees of l... ...en V oyages to Spitzbergen, in Purchas. “In their way they saw many whales sporting in the ocean, and in wantonness fuzzing up the water through their... ... 1690 some persons were on a high hill observ- ing the whales spouting and sporting with each other, when one observed: there—pointing to the sea—is a... ...ough. It touches one’s sense of honour, particularly if you come of an old established family in the land, the V an Rensselaers, or 16 Moby Dick Rand... ...g Queequeg’s pagan arm thrown round me. But at length all the past night’s events soberly recurred, one by one, in fixed real- ity, and then I lay onl... ...g too without his regular meals. “Mrs. Hussey,” said I, “he’s alive at all events; so leave us, if you please, and I will see to this strange affair m... ...htened at times by the ragged Elijah’s diabolical incoherences uninvitedly recurring to me, with a subtle 124 Moby Dick energy I could not have befor... ...ly efficient in those thousand nameless mechanical emergencies continually recurring in a large ship, upon a three or four years’ voyage, in unciviliz... ...res the fish, the creature’s future wake through the darkness is almost as established to the sagacious mind of the hunter, as the pilot’s coast is to...

...inute; in which the sun that at noon beheld all sound and prosperous, long before its setting hour looks out upon a total wreck, and sometimes upon th... ... in many a fifth part of that amount,) births and deaths be- came ordinary events, which, in a small modern theatre, are rare and memorable; and exact... ...eal the name of the great city, and therefore of the nation in which these events occurred, chiefly out of consideration for the descen- dants of one ... ...wn out of my poor wife’s rustic ig- norance as to the usages then recently established by law with regard to the kind of money that could be legally t... ...tuation of my poor Agnes. Perhaps the best way to express it at once is by recurring to the case of a young female Christian martyr, in the early ages... ... twenty-nine. With respect to his prison confinement, it was so frequently recurring in his life, and was alleviated by so many indulgences, that he s... ... the audience, but another audience, was assembled; again the tribunal was established; again the court 72 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers was set... ...e humbly remonstrated upon the injustice done him, and the cruelty of thus sporting with his feelings by setting him at liberty, and, as it were, temp... ...losopher that he evidently was, ‘Caught a T artar!’ But another story of a sporting baronet, who was besides a Member of Parliament, is much worse, an...