1 that circular, it appears that precisely such a chart is in.
2 Of what precise species this sea-monster was, is not mentioned.
3 What precise purpose this ivory horn or lance answers, it would be hard to say.
4 So there is no earthly way of finding out precisely what the whale really looks like.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales. 5 And as for this whale spout, you might almost stand in it, and yet be undecided as to what it is precisely.
6 One of them, though not precisely adapted to our present purpose, nevertheless deserves mention on other accounts.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and ... 7 It is not probable that this monomania in him took its instant rise at the precise time of his bodily dismemberment.
8 But we shall ere long see what that word "careful" precisely means when used by a man like Stubb, or almost any other whale hunter.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires. 9 For of these moonlight nights, it was his wont to mount to the main-mast head, and stand a look-out there, with the same precision as if it had been day.
10 But they precisely agree in all their grand features; nor has there yet been presented a single determinate fact upon which to ground a radical distinction.
11 There, luck befriended him; two ships were about to sail for France, and were providentially in want of precisely that number of men which the sailor headed.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 12 Now as the blubber envelopes the whale precisely as the rind does an orange, so is it stripped off from the body precisely as an orange is sometimes stripped by spiralizing it.
13 And though none of them precisely answer to any known species of the present time, they are yet sufficiently akin to them in general respects, to justify their taking rank as Cetacean fossils.
14 By the time this cautious search is over, a stout iron-bound bucket, precisely like a well-bucket, has been attached to one end of the whip; while the other end, being stretched across the deck, is there held by two or three alert hands.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets. 15 For you see no one point precisely; not one distinct feature is revealed; no nose, eyes, ears, or mouth; no face; he has none, proper; nothing but that one broad firmament of a forehead, pleated with riddles; dumbly lowering with the doom of boats, and ships, and men.
16 For though other species of whales find their food above water, and may be seen by man in the act of feeding, the spermaceti whale obtains his whole food in unknown zones below the surface; and only by inference is it that any one can tell of what, precisely, that food consists.
17 It was in the left hand try-pot of the Pequod, with the soapstone diligently circling round me, that I was first indirectly struck by the remarkable fact, that in geometry all bodies gliding along the cycloid, my soapstone for example, will descend from any point in precisely the same time.
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