1 Immediately the hammer touched the cheek; the next instant the lower jaw of the mate was stove in his head; he fell on the hatch spouting blood like a whale.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 2 Removing this hatch we expose the great try-pots, two in number, and each of several barrels' capacity.
3 The hatch, removed from the top of the works, now afforded a wide hearth in front of them.
4 There, where the water stood at about the height of his waist, he flung away the hatch, and attempted to drag forth the man.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together 5 A dozen of the prisoners had hatched it before they came aboard, Prendergast was the leader, and his money was the motive power.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott" 6 Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction.
7 Then she went on sitting, and hatched them: and in a few days they crawled out, and had only a little red streak across their necks, where the tailor had sewn them together.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE FOUR CLEVER BROTHERS 8 Thither presently came also his son, returning from a voyage to Pylos, and the two came to the town when they had hatched their plot for our destruction.
9 The older, quieter cities were wont to look upon the bustling new town with the sensations of a hen which has hatched a duckling.
10 You seem to have hatched a very fine scheme.
11 That night we rested and nursed our anger, for Jove was hatching mischief against us.
12 Betsy said all this, and, at the same time, from her good-humored, shrewd glance, Anna felt that she partly guessed her plight, and was hatching something for her benefit.
13 The cabin entrance was locked within; the hatches were all on, and lumbered with coils of rigging.
14 For several days after leaving Nantucket, nothing above hatches was seen of Captain Ahab.
15 From my forenoon watch below, I ascended to the overclouded deck; and there, dashed upon the main hatches, I saw a regal, feathery thing of unspotted whiteness, and with a hooked, Roman bill sublime.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.