1 Thou beliest thine own heart, Peleg.
2 I would up heart, were it not like lead.
3 Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.
4 No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world.
5 But my whole clock's run down; my heart the all-controlling weight, I have no key to lift again.
6 This relieved me; and once more, and finally as it seemed to me, I pronounced him in my heart, a humbug.
7 Now, in his heart, Ahab had some glimpse of this, namely: all my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.
8 And thus an old idolator at heart, he yet lived among these Christians, wore their clothes, and tried to talk their gibberish.
9 But there were some boobies and bumpkins there, who, by their intense greenness, must have come from the heart and centre of all verdure.
10 The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung.
11 He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
12 Through all his unearthly tattooings, I thought I saw the traces of a simple honest heart; and in his large, deep eyes, fiery black and bold, there seemed tokens of a spirit that would dare a thousand devils.
13 But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to write it; for it is a thing most sorrowful, nay shocking, to expose the fall of valour in the soul.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires. 14 He goes down in the whirling heart of such a masterless commotion that he scarce heeds the moment when he drops seething into the yawning jaws awaiting him; and the whale shoots-to all his ivory teeth, like so many white bolts, upon his prison.
15 If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half fancy being committed this way to so long a voyage, without once laying my eyes on the man who was to be the absolute dictator of it, so soon as the ship sailed out upon the open sea.
16 And like a sister of charity did this charitable Aunt Charity bustle about hither and thither, ready to turn her hand and heart to anything that promised to yield safety, comfort, and consolation to all on board a ship in which her beloved brother Bildad was concerned, and in which she herself owned a score or two of well-saved dollars.
17 But in the cautious comprehensiveness and unloitering vigilance with which Ahab threw his brooding soul into this unfaltering hunt, he would not permit himself to rest all his hopes upon the one crowning fact above mentioned, however flattering it might be to those hopes; nor in the sleeplessness of his vow could he so tranquillize his unquiet heart as to postpone all intervening quest.
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