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1  Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
2  The red tide now poured from all sides of the monster like brooks down a hill.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
3  He would hum over his old rigadig tunes while flank and flank with the most exasperated monster.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
4  The huge corpulence of that Hogarthian monster undulates on the surface, scarcely drawing one inch of water.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
5  With greedy ears I learned the history of that murderous monster against whom I and all the others had taken our oaths of violence and revenge.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
6  Presently, as we thus glided in chase, the monster perpendicularly flitted his tail forty feet into the air, and then sank out of sight like a tower swallowed up.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
7  But even stripped of these supernatural surmisings, there was enough in the earthly make and incontestable character of the monster to strike the imagination with unwonted power.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
8  As with glass under arm, Ahab to-and-fro paced the deck; in his forward turn beholding the monsters he chased, and in the after one the bloodthirsty pirates chasing him; some such fancy as the above seemed his.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
9  They fancy that the monster to which these arms belonged ordinarily clings by them to the bed of the ocean; and that the sperm whale, unlike other species, is supplied with teeth in order to attack and tear it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 59. Squid.
10  But almost everybody supposed that this particular preparative heedfulness in Ahab must only be with a view to the ultimate chase of Moby Dick; for he had already revealed his intention to hunt that mortal monster in person.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 50. Ahab's Boat and Crew. Fedallah.
11  Then, in darting at the monster, knife in hand, he had but given loose to a sudden, passionate, corporal animosity; and when he received the stroke that tore him, he probably but felt the agonizing bodily laceration, but nothing more.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
12  The masts reeled, and the sails fell altogether, while we who were below all sprang instantly upon the deck, concluding that we had struck upon some rock; instead of this we saw the monster sailing off with the utmost gravity and solemnity.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
13  For a time, there reigned, too, a sense of peculiar dread at this flitting apparition, as if it were treacherously beckoning us on and on, in order that the monster might turn round upon us, and rend us at last in the remotest and most savage seas.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
14  As morning mowers, who side by side slowly and seethingly advance their scythes through the long wet grass of marshy meads; even so these monsters swam, making a strange, grassy, cutting sound; and leaving behind them endless swaths of blue upon the yellow sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 58. Brit.
15  There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the deep, as if the masts were gigantic stilts, while beneath you and between your legs, as it were, swim the hugest monsters of the sea, even as ships once sailed between the boots of the famous Colossus at old Rhodes.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
16  The prow of the boat is partially unbroken, and is drawn just balancing upon the monster's spine; and standing in that prow, for that one single incomputable flash of time, you behold an oarsman, half shrouded by the incensed boiling spout of the whale, and in the act of leaping, as if from a precipice.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and ...
17  It would be refining too much, perhaps, even considering his monomania, to hint that his vindictiveness towards the White Whale might have possibly extended itself in some degree to all sperm whales, and that the more monsters he slew by so much the more he multiplied the chances that each subsequently encountered whale would prove to be the hated one he hunted.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 46. Surmises.
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