1 The thought of the animal's suffering was intolerable to him and he struggled to raise himself, and could not because a rock, or some huge mass, seemed to be lying on him.
2 Reared in Charleston, he knew every inlet, creek, shoal and rock of the Carolina coast near that port, and he was equally at home in the waters around Wilmington.
3 Miss Faith was driving, her face like a rock, and for once, her teeth were covered by her lips.
4 It was as hard as rock candy and as tasteless as sawdust and after one bite Scarlett hastily handed it back amid roars of laughter.
5 Maddened by terror, she lashed the horse again and again and it struck a gait that made the buggy rock and sway.
6 "Let us sit here," Selden suggested, as they reached an open ledge of rock above which the beeches rose steeply between mossy boulders.
7 Lily dropped down on the rock, glowing with her long climb.
8 Selden stretched himself on the grass at her feet, tilting his hat against the level sun-rays, and clasping his hands behind his head, which rested against the side of the rock.
9 Inherited tendencies had combined with early training to make her the highly specialized product she was: an organism as helpless out of its narrow range as the sea-anemone torn from the rock.
10 He was an undefined mass, as solid-seeming as rock.
11 On this rock every one of the whale-naturalists has split.
12 Seen from the mast-heads, especially when they paused and were stationary for a while, their vast black forms looked more like lifeless masses of rock than anything else.
13 Hand in hand, ship and breeze blew on; but the breeze came faster than the ship, and soon the Pequod began to rock.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story. 14 Yet dost thou, darker half, rock me with a prouder, if a darker faith.
15 When she heard it there came before her imagination the figure of a man standing beside a desolate rock on the seashore.