1 For neither had I then read the Rhyme, nor knew the bird to be an albatross.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale. 2 Soon we were running through a suffusing wide veil of mist; neither ship nor boat to be seen.
3 He looked neither one way nor the other way, but sat like a carved image with scarce a sign of active life.
4 To neither love nor reverence wilt thou be kind; and e'en for hate thou canst but kill; and all are killed.
5 Though neither knows where lie the nameless things of which the mystic sign gives forth such hints; yet with me, as with the colt, somewhere those things must exist.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale. 6 Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.
7 Though many of the whales, as has been said, were in violent motion, yet it is to be observed that as a whole the herd neither advanced nor retreated, but collectively remained in one place.
8 A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor valiant; taking perils as they came with an indifferent air; and while engaged in the most imminent crisis of the chase, toiling away, calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged for the year.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 9 But neither great Washington, nor Napoleon, nor Nelson, will answer a single hail from below, however madly invoked to befriend by their counsels the distracted decks upon which they gaze; however it may be surmised, that their spirits penetrate through the thick haze of the future, and descry what shoals and what rocks must be shunned.