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1  The red tide now poured from all sides of the monster like brooks down a hill.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
2  I had thought, now, that at your temperate North the generations were cold and holy as the hills.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
3  But it bade fair to outstrip them; it flew on and on, as a mass of interblending bubbles borne down a rapid stream from the hills.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
4  Now this doubloon was of purest, virgin gold, raked somewhere out of the heart of gorgeous hills, whence, east and west, over golden sands, the head-waters of many a Pactolus flows.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
5  In the distance, a great white mass lazily rose, and rising higher and higher, and disentangling itself from the azure, at last gleamed before our prow like a snow-slide, new slid from the hills.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 59. Squid.
6  And some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher, except to sell by the cartload, as they do hills about Boston, to fill up some morass in the Milky Way.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
7  Yet so vast is the quantity of blood in him, and so distant and numerous its interior fountains, that he will keep thus bleeding and bleeding for a considerable period; even as in a drought a river will flow, whose source is in the well-springs of far-off and undiscernible hills.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
8  If hereafter any highly cultured, poetical nation shall lure back to their birth-right, the merry May-day gods of old; and livingly enthrone them again in the now egotistical sky; in the now unhaunted hill; then be sure, exalted to Jove's high seat, the great Sperm Whale shall lord it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 79. The Prairie.
9  By reason of these things, then, the whaling voyage was welcome; the great flood-gates of the wonder-world swung open, and in the wild conceits that swayed me to my purpose, two and two there floated into my inmost soul, endless processions of the whale, and, mid most of them all, one grand hooded phantom, like a snow hill in the air.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
10  Seen from the Pequod's deck, then, as she would rise on a high hill of the sea, this host of vapoury spouts, individually curling up into the air, and beheld through a blending atmosphere of bluish haze, showed like the thousand cheerful chimneys of some dense metropolis, descried of a balmy autumnal morning, by some horseman on a height.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.