1 Still, no sign of mutiny reappeared among the rest.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 2 In man or fish, wriggling is a sign of inferiority.
3 Their vision was keener than man's; Ahab could discover no sign in the sea.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day. 4 There seemed no sign of common bodily illness about him, nor of the recovery from any.
5 And, as for Captain Ahab, no sign of him was yet to be seen; only, they said he was in the cabin.
6 He looked neither one way nor the other way, but sat like a carved image with scarce a sign of active life.
7 There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair.
8 Meanwhile the driving scud, rack, and mist, grew darker with the shadows of night; no sign of the ship could be seen.
9 But though the other boarders kept coming in by ones, twos, and threes, and going to bed, yet no sign of my harpooneer.
10 One packed rush was made to the side, and every eye counted every ripple, as moment followed moment, and no sign of either the sinker or the diver could be seen.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets. 11 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. 12 In obedience to a sign from Ahab, Starbuck was now pulling obliquely across Stubb's bow; and when for a minute or so the two boats were pretty near to each other, Stubb hailed the mate.
13 But I am one of those that never take on about princely fortunes, and am quite content if the world is ready to board and lodge me, while I am putting up at this grim sign of the Thunder Cloud.
14 For there and then, for several consecutive years, Moby Dick had been periodically descried, lingering in those waters for awhile, as the sun, in its annual round, loiters for a predicted interval in any one sign of the Zodiac.
15 Hear me, then: I take that mast-head flame we saw for a sign of good luck; for those masts are rooted in a hold that is going to be chock a block with sperm-oil, d'ye see; and so, all that sperm will work up into the masts, like sap in a tree.
16 To a landsman, no whale, nor any sign of a herring, would have been visible at that moment; nothing but a troubled bit of greenish white water, and thin scattered puffs of vapour hovering over it, and suffusingly blowing off to leeward, like the confused scud from white rolling billows.
17 As the light looked so dim, and the place, for the time, looked quiet enough, and the dilapidated little wooden house itself looked as if it might have been carted here from the ruins of some burnt district, and as the swinging sign had a poverty-stricken sort of creak to it, I thought that here was the very spot for cheap lodgings, and the best of pea coffee.
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