Subject for March, 2020
CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
Subject: Moby Dick
The morning of the third day dawned fair and fresh, and once more the solitary night-man at the fore-mast-head was relieved by crowds of the daylight look-outs, who dotted every...
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CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day.
Subject: Moby Dick
At day-break, the three mast-heads were punctually manned afresh. “D’ye see him?” cried Ahab after allowing a little space for the light to spread. “See nothing, sir.” “Turn up ...
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CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
Subject: Moby Dick
That night, in the mid-watch, when the old man—as his wont at intervals—stepped forth from the scuttle in which he leaned, and went to his pivot-hole, he suddenly thrust out his...
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CHAPTER 132. The Symphony.
Subject: Moby Dick
It was a clear steel-blue day. The firmaments of air and sea were hardly separable in that all-pervading azure; only, the pensive air was transparently pure and soft, with a wom...
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CHAPTER 131. The Pequod Meets The Delight.
Subject: Moby Dick
The intense Pequod sailed on; the rolling waves and days went by; the life-buoy-coffin still lightly swung; and another ship, most miserably misnamed the Delight, was descried. ...
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CHAPTER 130. The Hat.
Subject: Moby Dick
And now that at the proper time and place, after so long and wide a preliminary cruise, Ahab,—all other whaling waters swept—seemed to have chased his foe into an ocean-fold, to...
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CHAPTER 129. The Cabin.
Subject: Moby Dick
(Ahab moving to go on deck; Pip catches him by the hand to follow.) “Lad, lad, I tell thee thou must not follow Ahab now. The hour is coming when Ahab would not scare thee from ...
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CHAPTER 128. The Pequod Meets The Rachel.
Subject: Moby Dick
Next day, a large ship, the Rachel, was descried, bearing directly down upon the Pequod, all her spars thickly clustering with men. At the time the Pequod was making good speed ...
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CHAPTER 127. The Deck.
Subject: Moby Dick
The coffin laid upon two line-tubs, between the vice-bench and the open hatchway; the Carpenter caulking its seams; the string of twisted oakum slowly unwinding from a large rol...
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CHAPTER 126. The Life-Buoy.
Subject: Moby Dick
Steering now south-eastward by Ahab’s levelled steel, and her progress solely determined by Ahab’s level log and line; the Pequod held on her path towards the Equator. Making so...
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