1 It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common.
2 Once again it was being put about that all the animals were dying of famine and disease, and that they were continually fighting among themselves and had resorted to cannibalism and infanticide.
3 Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.
4 You shuddered as you gazed, and wondered what monstrous cannibal and savage could ever have gone a death-harvesting with such a hacking, horrifying implement.
5 The next moment the light was extinguished, and this wild cannibal, tomahawk between his teeth, sprang into bed with me.
6 For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.
7 Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
8 A cannibal of a craft, tricking herself forth in the chased bones of her enemies.
9 I was told that there were still smaller ones, but they had been lost by some little cannibal urchins, the priest's children, who had stolen them to play marbles with.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton. 10 His hair and clothes were whitened with snow, and his sharp cannibal teeth, revealed by cold and wrath, gleamed through the dark.
11 After all, they were less human and more remote than our cannibal ancestors of three or four thousand years ago.
12 In these last-mentioned haunts you see only sailors; but in New Bedford, actual cannibals stand chatting at street corners; savages outright; many of whom yet carry on their bones unholy flesh.
13 But think not that this famous town has only harpooneers, cannibals, and bumpkins to show her visitors.
14 More than once she had to wade for a bit, with twenty cannibals splashing around and pushing.