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1 Such things may seem incredible; but, however wondrous, they are true.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
2 But much abatement is necessary with respect to the incredible bulk he assigns it.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 59. Squid.
3 A thing altogether incredible were it not that attracted by such prey as a dead whale, the otherwise miscellaneously carnivorous shark will seldom touch a man.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 72. The Monkey-Rope.
4 But in the foamy confusion of their mixed and struggling hosts, the marksmen could not always hit their mark; and this brought about new revelations of the incredible ferocity of the foe.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 66. The Shark Massacre.
5 They keep a Whale's Rib of an incredible length for a Miracle, which lying upon the Ground with its convex part uppermost, makes an Arch, the Head of which cannot be reached by a Man upon a Camel's Back.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 104. The Fossil Whale.
6 It was not long after the sinking of the body that a cry was heard from the Pequod's mast-heads, announcing that the Jungfrau was again lowering her boats; though the only spout in sight was that of a Fin-Back, belonging to the species of uncapturable whales, because of its incredible power of swimming.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
7 I know that this queer adventure of the Gay-Header's will be sure to seem incredible to some landsmen, though they themselves may have either seen or heard of some one's falling into a cistern ashore; an accident which not seldom happens, and with much less reason too than the Indian's, considering the exceeding slipperiness of the curb of the Sperm Whale's well.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets.