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1 They engaged him; but straightway upon the ship's getting out of sight of land, his insanity broke out in a freshet.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
2 He swam the seas before the continents broke water; he once swam over the site of the Tuileries, and Windsor Castle, and the Kremlin.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?—Will He ...
3 Now to this hand, now to that, he yawed in his faltering flight, and still at every billow that he broke, he spasmodically sank in the sea, or sideways rolled towards the sky his one beating fin.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
4 So, it being calm weather, they broke out deeper and deeper, disturbing the slumbers of the huge ground-tier butts; and from that black midnight sending those gigantic moles into the daylight above.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin.
5 The lines, of which, hardly an instant before, not one hand's breadth could have been gained, were now in long quick coils flung back all dripping into the boats, and soon the whale broke water within two ship's lengths of the hunters.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
6 Meantime, the crew driven from the forward part of the ship by the perilous seas that burstingly broke over its bows, stood in a line along the bulwarks in the waist; and the better to guard against the leaping waves, each man had slipped himself into a sort of bowline secured to the rail, in which he swung as in a loosened belt.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
7 It was the whaleman who first broke through the jealous policy of the Spanish crown, touching those colonies; and, if space permitted, it might be distinctly shown how from those whalemen at last eventuated the liberation of Peru, Chili, and Bolivia from the yoke of Old Spain, and the establishment of the eternal democracy in those parts.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 24. The Advocate.