1 Starbuck paled, and turned, and shivered.
2 I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail.
3 "Aye; but never before has it happened to me, sir," said the pale mate, gloomily.
4 A pale, death-glimmer lit up Fedallah's sunken eyes; a hideous motion gnawed his mouth.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day. 5 Such portentous appetites had Queequeg and Tashtego, that to fill out the vacancies made by the previous repast, often the pale Dough-Boy was fain to bring on a great baron of salt-junk, seemingly quarried out of the solid ox.
6 While this pallidness was burning aloft, few words were heard from the enchanted crew; who in one thick cluster stood on the forecastle, all their eyes gleaming in that pale phosphorescence, like a far away constellation of stars.
7 Whatever pale fears and forebodings some of them might have felt before; these were not only now kept out of sight through the growing awe of Ahab, but they were broken up, and on all sides routed, as timid prairie hares that scatter before the bounding bison.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day. 8 Ahab's harpoon, the one forged at Perth's fire, remained firmly lashed in its conspicuous crotch, so that it projected beyond his whale-boat's bow; but the sea that had stove its bottom had caused the loose leather sheath to drop off; and from the keen steel barb there now came a levelled flame of pale, forked fire.
9 It is noon; and Dough-Boy, the steward, thrusting his pale loaf-of-bread face from the cabin-scuttle, announces dinner to his lord and master; who, sitting in the lee quarter-boat, has just been taking an observation of the sun; and is now mutely reckoning the latitude on the smooth, medallion-shaped tablet, reserved for that daily purpose on the upper part of his ivory leg.