1 But none of us are in heaven yet.
2 Fine prospects to 'em; they're on the road to heaven.'
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 40. Midnight, Forecastle. 3 For heaven's sake, Queequeg, get up and shake yourself; get up and have some supper.
4 Out of the bottomless profundities the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the highest heaven.
5 By heaven, man, we are turned round and round in this world, like yonder windlass, and Fate is the handspike.
6 For the present other matters press, and the best we can do now for the head, is to pray heaven the tackles may hold.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ... 7 But thank heaven, at that moment the landlord came into the room light in hand, and leaping from the bed I ran up to him.
8 There's a sermon now, writ in high heaven, and the sun goes through it every year, and yet comes out of it all alive and hearty.
9 If you yourself can withstand three cheers at beholding these vivacious fish, then heaven help ye; the spirit of godly gamesomeness is not in ye.
10 I call him thus, because he always swims in hilarious shoals, which upon the broad sea keep tossing themselves to heaven like caps in a Fourth-of-July crowd.
11 Thou saw'st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them.
12 But, perhaps you expect to get into heaven by crawling through the lubber's hole, cook; but, no, no, cook, you don't get there, except you go the regular way, round by the rigging.
13 The magnetic energy, as developed in the mariner's needle, is, as all know, essentially one with the electricity beheld in heaven; hence it is not to be much marvelled at, that such things should be.
14 So man's insanity is heaven's sense; and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.
15 Tied up and twisted; gnarled and knotted with wrinkles; haggardly firm and unyielding; his eyes glowing like coals, that still glow in the ashes of ruin; untottering Ahab stood forth in the clearness of the morn; lifting his splintered helmet of a brow to the fair girl's forehead of heaven.
16 But beginning to feel very cold now, half undressed as I was, and remembering what the landlord said about the harpooneer's not coming home at all that night, it being so very late, I made no more ado, but jumped out of my pantaloons and boots, and then blowing out the light tumbled into bed, and commended myself to the care of heaven.
17 He had been originally nurtured among the crazy society of Neskyeuna Shakers, where he had been a great prophet; in their cracked, secret meetings having several times descended from heaven by the way of a trap-door, announcing the speedy opening of the seventh vial, which he carried in his vest-pocket; but, which, instead of containing gunpowder, was supposed to be charged with laudanum.
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