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1 Lit up by the moon, it looked celestial; seemed some plumed and glittering god uprising from the sea.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
2 To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 46. Surmises.
3 Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 107. The Carpenter.
4 For years he knows not the land; so that when he comes to it at last, it smells like another world, more strangely than the moon would to an Earthsman.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 14. Nantucket.
5 You may think with what emotions, then, the seamen beheld this old Oriental perched aloft at such unusual hours; his turban and the moon, companions in one sky.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
6 Nevertheless the sun hides not Virginia's Dismal Swamp, nor Rome's accursed Campagna, nor wide Sahara, nor all the millions of miles of deserts and of griefs beneath the moon.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
7 And ever, as the white moon shows her affrighted face from the steep gullies in the blackness overhead, aghast Jonah sees the rearing bowsprit pointing high upward, but soon beat downward again towards the tormented deep.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.