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1 Here's the ship's navel, this doubloon here, and they are all on fire to unscrew it.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
2 It so chanced that the doubloon of the Pequod was a most wealthy example of these things.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
3 No: he don't know what to make of the doubloon; he takes it for an old button off some king's trowsers.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
4 Now this doubloon was of purest, virgin gold, raked somewhere out of the heart of gorgeous hills, whence, east and west, over golden sands, the head-waters of many a Pactolus flows.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
5 Nor, though placed amongst a ruthless crew and every hour passed by ruthless hands, and through the livelong nights shrouded with thick darkness which might cover any pilfering approach, nevertheless every sunrise found the doubloon where the sunset left it last.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
6 But one morning, turning to pass the doubloon, he seemed to be newly attracted by the strange figures and inscriptions stamped on it, as though now for the first time beginning to interpret for himself in some monomaniac way whatever significance might lurk in them.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
7 The season for the Line at length drew near; and every day when Ahab, coming from his cabin, cast his eyes aloft, the vigilant helmsman would ostentatiously handle his spokes, and the eager mariners quickly run to the braces, and would stand there with all their eyes centrally fixed on the nailed doubloon; impatient for the order to point the ship's prow for the equator.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 118. The Quadrant.