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1  And all these subtle agencies, more and more they wrought on Ahab's texture.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb.
2  If he did not have a common soul in him, he had a subtle something that somehow anomalously did its duty.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 107. The Carpenter.
3  In this central expanse the sea presented that smooth satin-like surface, called a sleek, produced by the subtle moisture thrown off by the whale in his more quiet moods.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
4  This was strangely heightened at times by the ragged Elijah's diabolical incoherences uninvitedly recurring to me, with a subtle energy I could not have before conceived of.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
5  All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, ever-present perils of life.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 60. The Line.
6  Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath the loveliest tints of azure.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 58. Brit.
7  Such is the subtle elasticity of the organ I treat of, that whether wielded in sport, or in earnest, or in anger, whatever be the mood it be in, its flexions are invariably marked by exceeding grace.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
8  All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
9  But when Steelkilt made known his determination still to lead them to the last, they in some way, by some subtle chemistry of villany, mixed their before secret treacheries together; and when their leader fell into a doze, verbally opened their souls to each other in three sentences; and bound the sleeper with cords, and gagged him with cords; and shrieked out for the Captain at midnight.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.