1 'A pretty scholar, laughed the Lakeman.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 2 He hollowly laughed, and thus explained the wonder.
3 I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.
4 'Well for our northern friend, Dame Isabella's Inquisition wanes in Lima, laughed Don Sebastian.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 5 However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity.
6 They laugh at long-togs so, Flask; but seems to me, a Long tailed coat ought always to be worn in all storms afloat.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 121. Midnight.—The Forecastle Bulwarks. 7 And once for all, let me tell thee and assure thee, young man, it's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.
8 Hearing him foolishly fumbling there, the Captain laughs lowly to himself, and mutters something about the doors of convicts' cells being never allowed to be locked within.
9 With one foot on each prow of the yoked war-canoes, the Lakeman laughed him to scorn; assuring him that if the pistol so much as clicked in the lock, he would bury him in bubbles and foam.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 10 For again Starbuck's downcast eyes lighted up with the stubbornness of life; the subterranean laugh died away; the winds blew on; the sails filled out; the ship heaved and rolled as before.
11 But in his joy at the enchanted, tacit acquiescence of the mate, Ahab did not hear his foreboding invocation; nor yet the low laugh from the hold; nor yet the presaging vibrations of the winds in the cordage; nor yet the hollow flap of the sails against the masts, as for a moment their hearts sank in.