1 I hope I do no wrong, Mr. Starbuck.
2 They were full of hope and fruition.
3 He might have carried him round by the way of the Cape of Good Hope.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 83. Jonah Historically Regarded. 4 I lay there dismally calculating that sixteen entire hours must elapse before I could hope for a resurrection.
5 But Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
6 There, then, he sat, the sign and symbol of a man without faith, hopelessly holding up hope in the midst of despair.
7 So in this vale of Death, God girds us round; and over all our gloom, the sun of Righteousness still shines a beacon and a hope.
8 "Yes, yes, round the Cape of Good Hope is the shortest way to Nantucket," soliloquized Starbuck suddenly, heedless of Stubb's question.
9 But how can I hope to explain myself here; and yet, in some dim, random way, explain myself I must, else all these chapters might be naught.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale. 10 But as she was so far to windward, and shooting by, apparently making a passage to some other ground, the Pequod could not hope to reach her.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story. 11 For by a Portuguese Catholic priest, this very idea of Jonah's going to Nineveh via the Cape of Good Hope was advanced as a signal magnification of the general miracle.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 83. Jonah Historically Regarded. 12 The Cape of Good Hope, and all the watery region round about there, is much like some noted four corners of a great highway, where you meet more travellers than in any other part.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 13 By this time the faint air had become a complete calm; so that whether or no, the Pequod was now fairly entrapped in the smell, with no hope of escaping except by its breezing up again.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud. 14 Besides, this idea of Jonah's weathering the Cape of Good Hope at so early a day would wrest the honour of the discovery of that great headland from Bartholomew Diaz, its reputed discoverer, and so make modern history a liar.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 83. Jonah Historically Regarded. 15 So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as the standard-bearer of this forlorn hope.
16 And hence not only at substantiated times, upon well known separate feeding-grounds, could Ahab hope to encounter his prey; but in crossing the widest expanses of water between those grounds he could, by his art, so place and time himself on his way, as even then not to be wholly without prospect of a meeting.
17 Not so the sailor, beholding the scenery of the Antarctic seas; where at times, by some infernal trick of legerdemain in the powers of frost and air, he, shivering and half shipwrecked, instead of rainbows speaking hope and solace to his misery, views what seems a boundless churchyard grinning upon him with its lean ice monuments and splintered crosses.
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