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1 Nor can piety itself, at such a shameful sight, completely stifle her upbraidings against the permitting stars.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
2 At their flaming head he westward trooped it like that chosen star which every evening leads on the hosts of light.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
3 Stubb longed for vermillion stars to be painted upon the blade of his every oar; screwing each oar in his big vice of wood, the carpenter symmetrically supplies the constellation.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 107. The Carpenter.
4 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.
5 As the unsetting polar star, which through the livelong, arctic, six months' night sustains its piercing, steady, central gaze; so Ahab's purpose now fixedly gleamed down upon the constant midnight of the gloomy crew.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 130. The Hat.
6 While this pallidness was burning aloft, few words were heard from the enchanted crew; who in one thick cluster stood on the forecastle, all their eyes gleaming in that pale phosphorescence, like a far away constellation of stars.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
7 Here palms, alpacas, and volcanoes; sun's disks and stars; ecliptics, horns-of-plenty, and rich banners waving, are in luxuriant profusion stamped; so that the precious gold seems almost to derive an added preciousness and enhancing glories, by passing through those fancy mints, so Spanishly poetic.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.