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Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
2 For of these moonlight nights, it was his wont to mount to the main-mast head, and stand a look-out there, with the same precision as if it had been day.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
3 The long rows of teeth on the bulwarks glistened in the moonlight; and like the white ivory tusks of some huge elephant, vast curving icicles depended from the bows.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
4 It was the middle-watch; a fair moonlight; the seamen were standing in a cordon, extending from one of the fresh-water butts in the waist, to the scuttle-butt near the taffrail.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 43. Hark!
5 Now, with elated step, they pace the planks in twos and threes, and humorously discourse of parlors, sofas, carpets, and fine cambrics; propose to mat the deck; think of having hanging to the top; object not to taking tea by moonlight on the piazza of the forecastle.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 98. Stowing Down and Clearing Up.
6 Mysteriously jetted into the clear moonlight, or starlight, as the case might be; disappearing again for one whole day, or two days, or three; and somehow seeming at every distinct repetition to be advancing still further and further in our van, this solitary jet seemed for ever alluring us on.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
7 It was while gliding through these latter waters that one serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver; and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery silence, not a solitude; on such a silent night a silvery jet was seen far in advance of the white bubbles at the bow.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.