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1 Be it said, that though I had felt such a strong repugnance to his smoking in the bed the night before, yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 11. Nightgown.
2 That blubber is something of the consistence of firm, close-grained beef, but tougher, more elastic and compact, and ranges from eight or ten to twelve and fifteen inches in thickness.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 68. The Blanket.
3 Such is the subtle elasticity of the organ I treat of, that whether wielded in sport, or in earnest, or in anger, whatever be the mood it be in, its flexions are invariably marked by exceeding grace.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
4 He was seated on an old-fashioned oaken chair, wriggling all over with curious carving; and the bottom of which was formed of a stout interlacing of the same elastic stuff of which the wigwam was constructed.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
5 The lower subdivided part, called the junk, is one immense honeycomb of oil, formed by the crossing and recrossing, into ten thousand infiltrated cells, of tough elastic white fibres throughout its whole extent.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun.
6 Your only salvation lies in eluding it; but if it comes sideways through the opposing water, then partly owing to the light buoyancy of the whale boat, and the elasticity of its materials, a cracked rib or a dashed plank or two, a sort of stitch in the side, is generally the most serious result.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
7 I know not that any other author has hinted of the matter; but by inference it seems to me that the sturgeon must be divided in the same way as the whale, the King receiving the highly dense and elastic head peculiar to that fish, which, symbolically regarded, may possibly be humorously grounded upon some presumed congeniality.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 90. Heads or Tails.