1 The best man in the ship must take the helm.
2 Listen to what the best and latest authorities have laid down.
3 Thinks I, Queequeg, this is using Rogers's best cutlery with a vengeance.
4 How it is, there is no telling, but Islanders seem to make the best whalemen.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 5 On the separate subject of the Greenland or right-whale, he is the best existing authority.
6 But she was the best and most conscientious of stepmothers, and back I had to go to my room.
7 I drew my bench near him, and made some friendly signs and hints, doing my best to talk with him meanwhile.
8 I had not a little relied upon Queequeg's sagacity to point out the whaler best fitted to carry us and our fortunes securely.
9 So he makes the best of it; and when the sailors find him not to be the man that is advertised, they let him pass, and he descends into the cabin.
10 Thus I soon engaged his interest; and from that we went to jabbering the best we could about the various outer sights to be seen in this famous town.
11 But I beat the thing down; and again marking the sleeper, jocularly hinted to Queequeg that perhaps we had best sit up with the body; telling him to establish himself accordingly.
12 By the best authorities, he has always been considered a most trustworthy and unexaggerating historian, except in some one or two particulars, not at all affecting the matter presently to be mentioned.
13 Nor did I at all object to the hint from Queequeg that perhaps it were best to strike a light, seeing that we were so wide awake; and besides he felt a strong desire to have a few quiet puffs from his Tomahawk.
14 Doubtless one leading reason why the world declines honouring us whalemen, is this: they think that, at best, our vocation amounts to a butchering sort of business; and that when actively engaged therein, we are surrounded by all manner of defilements.
15 The landlord of the Spouter-Inn had recommended us to his cousin Hosea Hussey of the Try Pots, whom he asserted to be the proprietor of one of the best kept hotels in all Nantucket, and moreover he had assured us that Cousin Hosea, as he called him, was famous for his chowders.
16 By the above definition of what a whale is, I do by no means exclude from the leviathanic brotherhood any sea creature hitherto identified with the whale by the best informed Nantucketers; nor, on the other hand, link with it any fish hitherto authoritatively regarded as alien.
17 As the light looked so dim, and the place, for the time, looked quiet enough, and the dilapidated little wooden house itself looked as if it might have been carted here from the ruins of some burnt district, and as the swinging sign had a poverty-stricken sort of creak to it, I thought that here was the very spot for cheap lodgings, and the best of pea coffee.
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