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1  Oh, boy, nor will I thee, unless I should thereby drag thee to worse horrors than are here.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.
2  For Lima has taken the white veil; and there is a higher horror in this whiteness of her woe.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
3  But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
4  For, at such times, crazy Ahab, the scheming, unappeasedly steadfast hunter of the white whale; this Ahab that had gone to his hammock, was not the agent that so caused him to burst from it in horror again.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 44. The Chart.
5  But agonizing as was the wound of this whale, and an appalling spectacle enough, any way; yet the peculiar horror with which he seemed to inspire the rest of the herd, was owing to a cause which at first the intervening distance obscured from us.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
6  And brave as he might be, it was that sort of bravery chiefly, visible in some intrepid men, which, while generally abiding firm in the conflict with seas, or winds, or whales, or any of the ordinary irrational horrors of the world, yet cannot withstand those more terrific, because more spiritual terrors, which sometimes menace you from the concentrating brow of an enraged and mighty man.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
7  Aside from those more obvious considerations touching Moby Dick, which could not but occasionally awaken in any man's soul some alarm, there was another thought, or rather vague, nameless horror concerning him, which at times by its intensity completely overpowered all the rest; and yet so mystical and well nigh ineffable was it, that I almost despair of putting it in a comprehensible form.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.