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...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ...ockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of... ... I am. Thou belongest to that hopeless, sallow tribe which no wine of this world will ever warm; and for whom even Pale Sherry would be too rosy stron... ... without chewing, as if it had been a sprat in the mouth of a whale.” Holy War. “That seabeast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest th... ... all over the same dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years’ War, and just escaped from it with a sticking plaster shirt. Still more, hi... ...these shall comprehend them all, both small and large. I. The Folio Whale; II. the Octavo Whale; III. the Duodecimo Whale. As the type of the Folio I ... .... Among these I here include the following chapters: — I. The Sperm Whale; II. the Right Whale; III. the Fin Back Whale; IV . the Hump backed Whale; V... ...where the beholder fights his way, pell mell, through the consecutive great battles of France; where every sword seems a flash of the Northern Lights, a...