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1  In the case of a small Sperm Whale the brains are accounted a fine dish.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
2  As for his true brain, you can then see no indications of it, nor feel any.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
3  He was a pure manipulator; his brain, if he had ever had one, must have early oozed along into the muscles of his fingers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 107. The Carpenter.
4  Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
5  If the Sperm Whale be physiognomically a Sphinx, to the phrenologist his brain seems that geometrical circle which it is impossible to square.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
6  But if from the comparative dimensions of the whale's proper brain, you deem it incapable of being adequately charted, then I have another idea for you.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
7  The same, I say, because in all these cases the native American liberally provides the brains, the rest of the world as generously supplying the muscles.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
8  And what is still more, for many feet after emerging from the brain's cavity, the spinal cord remains of an undecreasing girth, almost equal to that of the brain.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
9  That certain sultanism of his brain, which had otherwise in a good degree remained unmanifested; through those forms that same sultanism became incarnate in an irresistible dictatorship.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
10  The brain is at least twenty feet from his apparent forehead in life; it is hidden away behind its vast outworks, like the innermost citadel within the amplified fortifications of Quebec.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
11  But when, as in the case of Nicholas the Czar, the ringed crown of geographical empire encircles an imperial brain; then, the plebeian herds crouch abased before the tremendous centralization.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
12  So like a choice casket is it secreted in him, that I have known some whalemen who peremptorily deny that the Sperm Whale has any other brain than that palpable semblance of one formed by the cubic-yards of his sperm magazine.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
13  That protection could only consist in his own predominating brain and heart and hand, backed by a heedful, closely calculating attention to every minute atmospheric influence which it was possible for his crew to be subjected to.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 46. Surmises.
14  In the vignettes and other embellishments of some ancient books you will at times meet with very curious touches at the whale, where all manner of spouts, jets d'eau, hot springs and cold, Saratoga and Baden-Baden, come bubbling up from his unexhausted brain.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
15  Starbuck's body and Starbuck's coerced will were Ahab's, so long as Ahab kept his magnet at Starbuck's brain; still he knew that for all this the chief mate, in his soul, abhorred his captain's quest, and could he, would joyfully disintegrate himself from it, or even frustrate it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 46. Surmises.
16  All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
17  Be this conceit of mine as it may, gentlemen, at all events Steelkilt was a tall and noble animal with a head like a Roman, and a flowing golden beard like the tasseled housings of your last viceroy's snorting charger; and a brain, and a heart, and a soul in him, gentlemen, which had made Steelkilt Charlemagne, had he been born son to Charlemagne's father.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
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