1 So that what you take for the White Whale's malice is only his awkwardness.
2 No turbaned Turk, no hired Venetian or Malay, could have smote him with more seeming malice.
3 Nor, in some historic instances, has the art of human malice omitted so potent an auxiliary.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale. 4 He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.
5 I cherished no malice towards him, though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my bedfellow.
6 I might proceed with several more examples, one way or another known to me, of the great power and malice at times of the sperm whale.
7 Retribution, swift vengeance, eternal malice were in his whole aspect, and spite of all that mortal man could do, the solid white buttress of his forehead smote the ship's starboard bow, till men and timbers reeled.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day. 8 So close did the monster come to the hull, that at first it seemed as if he meant it malice; but suddenly going down in a maelstrom, within three rods of the planks, he wholly disappeared from view, as if diving under the keel.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ... 9 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.
10 Whether fagged by the three days' running chase, and the resistance to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was some latent deceitfulness and malice in him: whichever was true, the White Whale's way now began to abate, as it seemed, from the boat so rapidly nearing him once more; though indeed the whale's last start had not been so long a one as before.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.