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1  Terrors upon terrors run shouting through his soul.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
2  At last, stepping on board the Pequod, we found everything in profound quiet, not a soul moving.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21. Going Aboard.
3  And therefore three cheers for Nantucket; and come a stove boat and stove body when they will, for stave my soul, Jove himself cannot.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
4  But thou sayest, methinks that white-lead chapter about whiteness is but a white flag hung out from a craven soul; thou surrenderest to a hypo, Ishmael.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
5  Inward they turned upon the soul, especially when the still mild hours of eve came on; then, memory shot her crystals as the clear ice most forms of noiseless twilights.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb.
6  For with the charts of all four oceans before him, Ahab was threading a maze of currents and eddies, with a view to the more certain accomplishment of that monomaniac thought of his soul.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 44. The Chart.
7  Therefore, in his other moods, symbolize whatever grand or gracious thing he will by whiteness, no man can deny that in its profoundest idealized significance it calls up a peculiar apparition to the soul.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
8  I, Ishmael, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the rest; my oath had been welded with theirs; and stronger I shouted, and more did I hammer and clinch my oath, because of the dread in my soul.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
9  He was going on with some wild reminiscences about his tomahawk-pipe, which, it seemed, had in its two uses both brained his foes and soothed his soul, when we were directly attracted to the sleeping rigger.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21. Going Aboard.
10  But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to write it; for it is a thing most sorrowful, nay shocking, to expose the fall of valour in the soul.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
11  When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg's ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or two.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12. Biographical.
12  Yet, when by this collision forced to turn towards home, and for long months of days and weeks, Ahab and anguish lay stretched together in one hammock, rounding in mid winter that dreary, howling Patagonian Cape; then it was, that his torn body and gashed soul bled into one another; and so interfusing, made him mad.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
13  By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
14  When the entire ship's company were assembled, and with curious and not wholly unapprehensive faces, were eyeing him, for he looked not unlike the weather horizon when a storm is coming up, Ahab, after rapidly glancing over the bulwarks, and then darting his eyes among the crew, started from his standpoint; and as though not a soul were nigh him resumed his heavy turns upon the deck.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
15  But in the cautious comprehensiveness and unloitering vigilance with which Ahab threw his brooding soul into this unfaltering hunt, he would not permit himself to rest all his hopes upon the one crowning fact above mentioned, however flattering it might be to those hopes; nor in the sleeplessness of his vow could he so tranquillize his unquiet heart as to postpone all intervening quest.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 44. The Chart.
16  Aside from those more obvious considerations touching Moby Dick, which could not but occasionally awaken in any man's soul some alarm, there was another thought, or rather vague, nameless horror concerning him, which at times by its intensity completely overpowered all the rest; and yet so mystical and well nigh ineffable was it, that I almost despair of putting it in a comprehensible form.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
17  I then went on, beginning with the rise and progress of the primitive religions, and coming down to the various religions of the present time, during which time I labored to show Queequeg that all these Lents, Ramadans, and prolonged ham-squattings in cold, cheerless rooms were stark nonsense; bad for the health; useless for the soul; opposed, in short, to the obvious laws of Hygiene and common sense.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
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