1 Therefore, he must wait for the next ensuing season.
2 So next morning, Queequeg and I took a very early start.
3 At last it was given out that some time next day the ship would certainly sail.
4 'We sail with the next coming tide,' at last he slowly answered, still intently eyeing him.
5 That man next him looks a few shades lighter; you might say a touch of satin wood is in him.
6 But the next time you have a chance, watch him; and you will then see the great Sperm whale himself in miniature.
7 This fundamental thing settled, the next point is, in what internal respect does the whale differ from other fish.
8 The next moment the light was extinguished, and this wild cannibal, tomahawk between his teeth, sprang into bed with me.
9 By the thirteenth of May our ship was ready to sail, and the next day we were out in the open sea, on our way to Ochotsh.
10 Upon waking next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg's arm thrown over me in the most loving and affectionate manner.
11 On the after side, or side next the stern of the ship, is a comfortable seat, with a locker underneath for umbrellas, comforters, and coats.
12 Immediately the hammer touched the cheek; the next instant the lower jaw of the mate was stove in his head; he fell on the hatch spouting blood like a whale.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 13 For when they did enter it, it was something as a street-door enters a house; turning inwards for a moment, only to be turned out the next; and, as a permanent thing, residing in the open air.
14 As I hinted before, this whalebone marquee was never pitched except in port; and on board the Pequod, for thirty years, the order to strike the tent was well known to be the next thing to heaving up the anchor.
15 He would then begin again at the next fifty; seeming to commence at number one each time, as though he could not count more than fifty, and it was only by such a large number of fifties being found together, that his astonishment at the multitude of pages was excited.
16 In the midst of this consternation, Queequeg dropped deftly to his knees, and crawling under the path of the boom, whipped hold of a rope, secured one end to the bulwarks, and then flinging the other like a lasso, caught it round the boom as it swept over his head, and at the next jerk, the spar was that way trapped, and all was safe.
17 And where Ahab's chances of accomplishing his object have hitherto been spoken of, allusion has only been made to whatever way-side, antecedent, extra prospects were his, ere a particular set time or place were attained, when all possibilities would become probabilities, and, as Ahab fondly thought, every possibility the next thing to a certainty.
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