1 Flask was the last person down at the dinner, and Flask is the first man up.
2 When this last task was accomplished it was noon, and the seamen went below to their dinner.
3 Had not the stranger stood between me and the door, I would have bolted out of it quicker than ever I bolted a dinner.
4 For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
5 Chowder for breakfast, and chowder for dinner, and chowder for supper, till you began to look for fish-bones coming through your clothes.
6 Good-humored, easy, and careless, he presided over his whale-boat as if the most deadly encounter were but a dinner, and his crew all invited guests.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 7 Nor did the whetstone which the harpooneers carried in their pockets, for their lances and other weapons; and with which whetstones, at dinner, they would ostentatiously sharpen their knives; that grating sound did not at all tend to tranquillize poor Dough-Boy.
8 Whether he ever thought of it at all, might be a question; but, if he ever did chance to cast his mind that way after a comfortable dinner, no doubt, like a good sailor, he took it to be a sort of call of the watch to tumble aloft, and bestir themselves there, about something which he would find out when he obeyed the order, and not sooner.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 9 It is noon; and Dough-Boy, the steward, thrusting his pale loaf-of-bread face from the cabin-scuttle, announces dinner to his lord and master; who, sitting in the lee quarter-boat, has just been taking an observation of the sun; and is now mutely reckoning the latitude on the smooth, medallion-shaped tablet, reserved for that daily purpose on the upper part of his ivory leg.