...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...

... and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly 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 his mortality....

...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...

...2 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyssey of the N... ... . . 44 An Odyssey of the North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Law of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 The God of His... .... . . . . 354 The Strength of the Strong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 373 War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 The M... ...e Englishman, Prince, who pledged “Uncle Sam, the precocious infant of the New World;” the Yankee, Bettles, who drank to “The Queen, God bless her;” a... ...s own voice. Sole speck of life journeying across the ghostly wastes of a dead world, he trembles at his audacity, realizes that his is a maggot’s lif... ...our fathers did.’ And I marveled that those which were to come should fight the battles of those that were gone, and in it I could see no right. But th... ...ent away on the wind. “The people said it was good, for there would be no more war of the bloods in Akatan; but I said never a word, waiting till the ... ...his heavy jaws, so that Lecl` ere was forced to shoot her. Likewise, in bloody battles, Bˆ atard mastered all his team mates, set them the law of trai... ...oss the sun washed clearing, and passed into the shelter of the woods beyond. II Another day, hot and breathless. A deserted farmhouse, large, War 3...

...t when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sinking a hole...

...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old ...