The Whale and His Captors; Or, The Whaleman's Adventures: And the Whale's Biography as Gathered on the Homeward Cruise of the "Commodore Preble."Harper & brothers, 1850 - 314 páginas |
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... sight of it on Tuesday afternoon , a blue hummock on the bosom of the ocean , and ran on until we discovered , to our great delight , what could not be mistaken for a meeting - house and a white flag flying on a post near by , to ...
... sight of it on Tuesday afternoon , a blue hummock on the bosom of the ocean , and ran on until we discovered , to our great delight , what could not be mistaken for a meeting - house and a white flag flying on a post near by , to ...
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... sight to him , than it is to a whaler to have his decks and blubber - room " blubber- log , " the try - works a - blazing , cooper a - pound- ing , oil a - flowing , every body busy and dirty night and day . Donkey - loads of Chilian or ...
... sight to him , than it is to a whaler to have his decks and blubber - room " blubber- log , " the try - works a - blazing , cooper a - pound- ing , oil a - flowing , every body busy and dirty night and day . Donkey - loads of Chilian or ...
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... sight of them blowing all around , close at hand and at a distance , naturally puts one upon inquiring into the habits and resorts of this great sea - monster . It is of the class mammalia , order cetacea , warm - blooded , bring- ing ...
... sight of them blowing all around , close at hand and at a distance , naturally puts one upon inquiring into the habits and resorts of this great sea - monster . It is of the class mammalia , order cetacea , warm - blooded , bring- ing ...
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... sight . The organ for the latter sense is about as large as the eye of an ox . The head of a right whale , when his mouth is open in feeding , or when he breaches , as I have sometimes seen him do quite out of water , is a most uncouth ...
... sight . The organ for the latter sense is about as large as the eye of an ox . The head of a right whale , when his mouth is open in feeding , or when he breaches , as I have sometimes seen him do quite out of water , is a most uncouth ...
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... sight by four boat's crews pulling upon the tow - lines that were fast to the harpoons buried in the sinking carcass . Till we know more of the natural history of the whale than we yet do , its sinking so ap- parently without law can ...
... sight by four boat's crews pulling upon the tow - lines that were fast to the harpoons buried in the sinking carcass . Till we know more of the natural history of the whale than we yet do , its sinking so ap- parently without law can ...
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Página 180 - A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat; For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky, Lay like a load on my weary eye, And the dead were at my feet.
Página 73 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed; in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark-heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime, — The image of Eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 64 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 210 - For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
Página 181 - The Pilot, and the Pilot's boy, I heard them coming fast: Dear Lord in Heaven ! it was a joy The dead men could not blast. I saw a third — I heard his voice: It is the Hermit good! He singeth loud his godly hymns That he makes in the wood. He'll shrieve my soul, he'll wash away The Albatross's blood.
Página 65 - In billows, leave in the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight ; till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
Página 180 - The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
Página 181 - And all together pray. While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends And youths and maidens gay!
Página 181 - When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow, And the owlet whoops to the wolf below, That eats the she-wolf's young.
Página 164 - Adieu!" At length, his transient respite past, His comrades, who before Had heard his voice in every blast, Could catch the sound no more: For then, by toil subdued, he drank The stifling wave, and then he sank.