1 But again the old Manxman said nay.
2 Haul in here, Tahitian; reel up, Manxman.
3 The golden-hued Tahitian and the grizzly Manxman.
4 "There go two daft ones now," muttered the old Manxman.
5 "Bad news; she brings bad news," muttered the old Manxman.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 128. The Pequod Meets The Rachel. 6 "Peace, thou crazy loon," cried the Manxman, seizing him by the arm.
7 Nevertheless, the old sea-traditions, the immemorial credulities, popularly invested this old Manxman with preternatural powers of discernment.
8 Yet, this wild hint seemed inferentially negatived, by what a grey Manxman insinuated, an old sepulchral man, who, having never before sailed out of Nantucket, had never ere this laid eye upon wild Ahab.
9 The Manxman took the reel, and holding it high up, by the projecting handle-ends of the spindle, round which the spool of line revolved, so stood with the angular log hanging downwards, till Ahab advanced to him.
10 Ahab stood before him, and was lightly unwinding some thirty or forty turns to form a preliminary hand-coil to toss overboard, when the old Manxman, who was intently eyeing both him and the line, made bold to speak.