by obliquely elevating his head, he thereby may be said to transform himself from a bluff-bowed sluggish galliot into a sharppointed New York pilot-boat

seize hold of the nearest oarsman’s hair, and hold on there like grim death

skulls, seemingly their only vital part

Think, think of the fevers, yellow and bilious! Beware of the horrible plague!

You and I must understand one another, and that too without delay.

the weapon is instantly at hand to its hurler

And of all these things the Albino whale was the symbol.

Death and devils! men, it is Moby Dick ye have seen—Moby Dick—Moby Dick!

Who can show a pedigree like Leviathan?

his torn body and gashed soul bled into one another; and so interfusing, made him mad

what he ate did not so much relieve his hunger, as keep it immortal in him

A common man looking at this decision of the very learned Judge, might possibly object to it.

the boat was still booming through the mist, the waves curling and hissing around us like the erected crests of enraged serpents

man is fitted to sit down on tomb-stones, and break the green damp mould with unfathomably wondrous Solomon

Say you are in the country; in some high land of lakes.

out of sight of land, however inland, they have drowned full many a midnight ship with all its shrieking crew.

Nothing exists in itself.

it is not customary for such venerable leviathans to be at all social

Where away?

my men, the thunder turned old Ahab’s needles; but out of this bit of steel Ahab can make one of his own, that will point as true as any