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CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.
Subject: Moby Dick
While now the fated Pequod had been so long afloat this voyage, the log and line had but very seldom been in use. Owing to a confident reliance upon other means of determining t...
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CHAPTER 124. The Needle.
Subject: Moby Dick
Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of mighty bulk, and striving in the Pequod’s gurgling track, pushed her on like giants’ palms outspread. The st...
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CHAPTER 123. The Musket.
Subject: Moby Dick
During the most violent shocks of the Typhoon, the man at the Pequod’s jaw-bone tiller had several times been reelingly hurled to the deck by its spasmodic motions, even though ...
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CHAPTER 122. Midnight Aloft.—Thunder and Lightning.
Subject: Moby Dick
The main-top-sail yard.—Tashtego passing new lashings around it. “Um, um, um. Stop that thunder! Plenty too much thunder up here. What’s the use of thunder? Um, um, um. We don’t...
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CHAPTER 121. Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks.
Subject: Moby Dick
Stubb and Flask mounted on them, and passing additional lashings over the anchors there hanging. “No, Stubb; you may pound that knot there as much as you please, but you will ne...
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CHAPTER 120. The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch.
Subject: Moby Dick
Ahab standing by the helm. Starbuck approaching him. “We must send down the main-top-sail yard, sir. The band is working loose and the lee lift is half-stranded. Shall I strike ...
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CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
Subject: Moby Dick
Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gor...
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CHAPTER 118. The Quadrant.
Subject: Moby Dick
The season for the Line at length drew near; and every day when Ahab, coming from his cabin, cast his eyes aloft, the vigilant helmsman would ostentatiously handle his spokes, a...
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CHAPTER 117. The Whale Watch.
Subject: Moby Dick
The four whales slain that evening had died wide apart; one, far to windward; one, less distant, to leeward; one ahead; one astern. These last three were brought alongside ere n...
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CHAPTER 116. The Dying Whale.
Subject: Moby Dick
Not seldom in this life, when, on the right side, fortune’s favourites sail close by us, we, though all adroop before, catch somewhat of the rushing breeze, and joyfully feel ou...
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