1 Next morning Stubb accosted Flask.
2 Tashtego was Stubb the second mate's squire.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 3 Long usage had, for this Stubb, converted the jaws of death into an easy chair.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 4 Have an eye to the molasses tierce, Mr. Stubb; it was a little leaky, I thought.
5 What a relief it was to choking Stubb, when a rat made a sudden racket in the hold below.
6 For, when Stubb dressed, instead of first putting his legs into his trowsers, he put his pipe into his mouth.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 7 As he said this, Ahab advanced upon him with such overbearing terrors in his aspect, that Stubb involuntarily retreated.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb. 8 'Wise Stubb,' said he, 'wise Stubb;' and kept muttering it all the time, a sort of eating of his own gums like a chimney hag.
9 It's queer; very queer; and he's queer too; aye, take him fore and aft, he's about the queerest old man Stubb ever sailed with.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb. 10 But we shall ere long see what that word "careful" precisely means when used by a man like Stubb, or almost any other whale hunter.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires. 11 "I was never served so before without giving a hard blow for it," muttered Stubb, as he found himself descending the cabin-scuttle.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb. 12 Seeing he wasn't going to stop saying over his 'wise Stubb, wise Stubb,' I thought I might as well fall to kicking the pyramid again.
13 Remember what I say; BE kicked by him; account his kicks honours; and on no account kick back; for you can't help yourself, wise Stubb.
14 In old England the greatest lords think it great glory to be slapped by a queen, and made garter-knights of; but, be YOUR boast, Stubb, that ye were kicked by old Ahab, and made a wise man of.
15 When Stubb had departed, Ahab stood for a while leaning over the bulwarks; and then, as had been usual with him of late, calling a sailor of the watch, he sent him below for his ivory stool, and also his pipe.
16 What, perhaps, with other things, made Stubb such an easy-going, unfearing man, so cheerily trudging off with the burden of life in a world full of grave pedlars, all bowed to the ground with their packs; what helped to bring about that almost impious good-humor of his; that thing must have been his pipe.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 17 When the last echo of his sultan's step has died away, and Starbuck, the first Emir, has every reason to suppose that he is seated, then Starbuck rouses from his quietude, takes a few turns along the planks, and, after a grave peep into the binnacle, says, with some touch of pleasantness, "Dinner, Mr. Stubb," and descends the scuttle.
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