1 Porpoise meat is good eating, you know.
2 Porpoises, indeed, are to this day considered fine eating.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish. 3 Spite of reason, it is hard to keep yourself from eating it.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand. 4 that a man should eat a newly murdered thing of the sea, and eat it too by its own light.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish. 5 To dress in the dark, and eat in the dark, and stumble in darkness to his pallet, this is his usual lot.
6 'Wise Stubb,' said he, 'wise Stubb;' and kept muttering it all the time, a sort of eating of his own gums like a chimney hag.
7 The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung.
8 Now having a night, a day, and still another night following before me in New Bedford, ere I could embark for my destined port, it became a matter of concernment where I was to eat and sleep meanwhile.
9 It is not, perhaps, entirely because the whale is so excessively unctuous that landsmen seem to regard the eating of him with abhorrence; that appears to result, in some way, from the consideration before mentioned: i.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish. 10 That mortal man should feed upon the creature that feeds his lamp, and, like Stubb, eat him by his own light, as you may say; this seems so outlandish a thing that one must needs go a little into the history and philosophy of it.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish. 11 The English were preceded in the whale fishery by the Hollanders, Zealanders, and Danes; from whom they derived many terms still extant in the fishery; and what is yet more, their fat old fashions, touching plenty to eat and drink.