1 There weekly arrive in this town scores of green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery.
2 Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn, no commerce but colonial, scarcely any intercourse but colonial, was carried on between Europe and the long line of the opulent Spanish provinces on the Pacific coast.
3 In the fishery, they usually go by the generic name of Gay-Headers.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 4 Herein it is the same with the American whale fishery as with the American army and military and merchant navies, and the engineering forces employed in the construction of the American Canals and Railroads.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 5 And as the sea surpasses the land in this matter, so the whale fishery surpasses every other sort of maritime life, in the wonderfulness and fearfulness of the rumors which sometimes circulate there.
6 One reason perhaps is, that not one in fifty of the actual disasters and deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record at home, however transient and immediately forgotten that record.
7 All professions have their own little peculiarities of detail; so has the whale fishery.
8 This peculiarity of the whale's eyes is a thing always to be borne in mind in the fishery; and to be remembered by the reader in some subsequent scenes.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View. 9 These submerged side blows are so often received in the fishery, that they are accounted mere child's play.
10 The thing is common in that fishery; and in the sequel of the narrative, it will then be seen what like abandonment befell myself.
11 In the sperm fishery, this is perhaps one of the most remarkable incidents in all the business of whaling.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 98. Stowing Down and Clearing Up. 12 The title was, "Dan Coopman," wherefore I concluded that this must be the invaluable memoirs of some Amsterdam cooper in the fishery, as every whale ship must carry its cooper.
13 In short, this ancient and learned Low Dutch book treated of the commerce of Holland; and, among other subjects, contained a very interesting account of its whale fishery.
14 , consumed by every Low Dutch harpooneer in that ancient Greenland and Spitzbergen whale fishery.
15 Penetrating further and further into the heart of the Japanese cruising ground, the Pequod was soon all astir in the fishery.