...r that which is not true.” Hackluyt. “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or v... ...hoops and armed with ribs of whale.” Rape of the Lock. “If we compare land animals in respect to magnitude, with those that take up their abode in the... ... appear contemptible in the comparison. The whale is doubtless the largest animal in creation.” Goldsmith, Nat. His. “If you should write a fable for ... ...s in the last chapter but one, necessi tates some account of the laws and regulations of the whale fishery, of which the waif may be deemed the grand ... ..., the same house fitted out a discovery whale ship of their own, to go on a testing cruise to the remote waters of Japan. That ship — well called the “...

...ike the crow of a cock, or the blast of a clarion. Looking at him merely as an animal — and there was very little else to look at — he was a most sati... ...he original and more potent causes, however, lay in the rare perfection of his animal nature, the moderate proportion of intellect, and the very trifli... ...ly to grow grey and decrepit in the Surveyorship, and become much such another animal as the old Inspector. Might it not, in the tedious lapse of offic... ...ith the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony. The young woman was tall, with a figure of pe... ...as committed to her charge. But the task PEARL 61 was beyond her skill. after testing both smiles and frowns, and proving that nei ther mode of trea... ...e the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society. The thought 112 The Scarlet Letter suffices the... ...em, as the clergymen of that day stood, he was only the more trammelled by its regulations, its principles, and even its prejudices. As a priest, the ...