1 On came the blue lines, relentlessly, like a monster serpent, coiling, striking venomously, drawing its injured lengths back, but always striking again.
2 Her sister seemed to her a monster of selfishness, of complaints and of what she could only describe as pure cussedness.
3 Her voice became less choked as she went into detailed description of her monster guest in a language which only he could understand.
4 The car was a monster at rest after furious adventures.
5 Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity.
6 He would hum over his old rigadig tunes while flank and flank with the most exasperated monster.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 7 With greedy ears I learned the history of that murderous monster against whom I and all the others had taken our oaths of violence and revenge.
8 But even stripped of these supernatural surmisings, there was enough in the earthly make and incontestable character of the monster to strike the imagination with unwonted power.
9 The huge corpulence of that Hogarthian monster undulates on the surface, scarcely drawing one inch of water.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales. 10 Presently, as we thus glided in chase, the monster perpendicularly flitted his tail forty feet into the air, and then sank out of sight like a tower swallowed up.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale. 11 The red tide now poured from all sides of the monster like brooks down a hill.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale. 12 And that the great monster is indomitable, you will yet have reason to know.
13 But the monster's run was a brief one.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin. 14 Besides, it would much subtract from the glory of the exploit had St. George but encountered a crawling reptile of the land, instead of doing battle with the great monster of the deep.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 82. The Honour and Glory of Whaling. 15 The agonized whale goes into his flurry; the tow-line is slackened, and the pitchpoler dropping astern, folds his hands, and mutely watches the monster die.