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spermy heaps

the many noses on the Pequod’s deck proved more vigilant discoverers than the three pairs of eyes

How can’st thou endure without being mad?

the great principle of light, for ever remains white or colorless in itself

these mystic gestures

What does the whaler do when she meets another whaler in any sort of decent weather? She has a “Gam,” a thing so utterly unknown to all other ships that they never heard of the name even

yielding up the live bodies of all the men, women, and children who were alive seventy-five years ago

Wonder ye then at the fiery hunt?

he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my bedfellow

methinks it rings most vast, but hollow

he may be deemed a sort of involuntary whaleman; at any rate the whale caught him, if he did not the whale

let’s drink shame upon all cowards! I name no names. Shame upon them!

while the wildest winds of heaven and earth conspire to cast her on the treacherous, slavish shore?

All thy unnamable imminglings float beneath me here

my dear Ishmael, be sure to inquire the price, and don’t be too particular

his shipmates called him mad

These are hieroglyphical; that is, if you call those mysterious cyphers on the walls of pyramids hieroglyphics

All professions have their own little peculiarities of detail; so has the whale fishery.

His tormented body rolled not in brine but in blood, which bubbled and seethed for furlongs behind in their wake.

I claim him for one of our clan.