methinks it rings most vast, but hollow

the Pequod’s crew could hardly resist the spell of sleep induced by such a vacant sea

your whales must be seen before they can be killed

That unsounded ocean you gasp in, is Life; those sharks, your foes; those spades, your friends

you cannot sit motionless in the heart of these perils, because the boat is rocking like a cradle, and you are pitched one way and the other, without the slightest warning

a newly murdered thing of the sea

what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!

Hand in hand, ship and breeze blew on; but the breeze came faster than the ship

I proceed to lay before you a circumstance that happened within the last two years.

Moby Dick bodily burst into view!

all the grave-yards, cemeteries, and family vaults of creation

Such dreary streets!

Here, now, are two great whales, laying their heads together; let us join them

Yonder, to windward, all is blackness of doom; but to leeward, homeward—I see it lightens up there

He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor.

the skeleton of the whale furnishes but little clue to the shape of his fully invested body

fix your eye upon this strange, crested, comb-like incrustation on the top of the mass—this green, barnacled thing

those entrails seemed swallowed over and over again by the same mouth, to be oppositely voided by the gaping wound

from these citations, I take it—the conclusion aimed at will naturally follow of itself

the long tension of Ahab’s bodily strength did crack, and helplessly he yielded to his body’s doom