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1 The same secludedness and isolation to which the schoolmaster whale betakes himself in his advancing years, is true of all aged Sperm Whales.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters.
2 Even if not the slightest other part of the creature be visible, this isolated fin will, at times, be seen plainly projecting from the surface.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
3 The isolated subterraneousness of the cabin made a certain humming silence to reign there, though it was hooped round by all the roar of the elements.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 123. The Musket.
4 But further investigations have recently proved to me, that in modern times there have been isolated instances of the presence of the sperm whale in the Mediterranean.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
5 In various sorts of whales, they form such irregular combinations; or, in the case of any one of them detached, such an irregular isolation; as utterly to defy all general methodization formed upon such a basis.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
6 Unmindful of the tedious rope-ladders of the shrouds, the men, like shooting stars, slid to the deck, by the isolated backstays and halyards; while Ahab, less dartingly, but still rapidly was dropped from his perch.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day.
7 At length the breathless hunter came so nigh his seemingly unsuspecting prey, that his entire dazzling hump was distinctly visible, sliding along the sea as if an isolated thing, and continually set in a revolving ring of finest, fleecy, greenish foam.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
8 When in working with his hands at some lofty almost isolated place in the rigging, which chances to afford no foothold, the sailor at sea is hoisted up to that spot, and sustained there by the rope; under these circumstances, its fastened end on deck is always given in strict charge to some one man who has the special watch of it.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 130. The Hat.