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1 It was like holding an enemy's sharp two-edged sword by the blade, and that enemy all the time striving to wrest it out of your clutch.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
2 And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg, as a mower a blade of grass in the field.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
3 Stubb longed for vermillion stars to be painted upon the blade of his every oar; screwing each oar in his big vice of wood, the carpenter symmetrically supplies the constellation.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 107. The Carpenter.
4 It does not seem to be used like the blade of the sword-fish and bill-fish; though some sailors tell me that the Narwhale employs it for a rake in turning over the bottom of the sea for food.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
5 But so decided an original start had Derick had, that spite of all their gallantry, he would have proved the victor in this race, had not a righteous judgment descended upon him in a crab which caught the blade of his midship oarsman.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
6 And still as Ahab glided over the waves the unpitying sharks accompanied him; and so pertinaciously stuck to the boat; and so continually bit at the plying oars, that the blades became jagged and crunched, and left small splinters in the sea, at almost every dip.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
7 His three boats stove around him, and oars and men both whirling in the eddies; one captain, seizing the line-knife from his broken prow, had dashed at the whale, as an Arkansas duellist at his foe, blindly seeking with a six inch blade to reach the fathom-deep life of the whale.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
8 Yet the voice spake true; for scarce had he pushed from the ship, when numbers of sharks, seemingly rising from out the dark waters beneath the hull, maliciously snapped at the blades of the oars, every time they dipped in the water; and in this way accompanied the boat with their bites.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.