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1  No mercy, no power but its own controls it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 58. Brit.
2  This triune structure, as much as anything else, imparts power to the tail.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
3  I might proceed with several more examples, one way or another known to me, of the great power and malice at times of the sperm whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
4  Yet without power to kill, or change, or shun the fact; he likewise knew that to mankind he did long dissemble; in some sort, did still.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
5  It is not my intention, were it in my power, to enter into the inquiry as to the true method of dividing the cetacea into groups and families.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
6  I would have you investigate it now with the sole view of forming to yourself some unexaggerated, intelligent estimate of whatever battering-ram power may be lodged there.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 76. The Battering-Ram.
7  But even stripped of these supernatural surmisings, there was enough in the earthly make and incontestable character of the monster to strike the imagination with unwonted power.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
8  Nor is the history of fanatics half so striking in respect to the measureless self-deception of the fanatic himself, as his measureless power of deceiving and bedevilling so many others.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
9  But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily gain the power of enlightening his untutored countrymen.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12. Biographical.
10  While he was speaking these words, the howling of the shrieking, slanting storm without seemed to add new power to the preacher, who, when describing Jonah's sea-storm, seemed tossed by a storm himself.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
11  And by those negations, considered along with the affirmative fact of his prodigious bulk and power, you can best form to yourself the truest, though not the most exhilarating conception of what the most exalted potency is.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
12  No resolution could withstand it; in that dreamy mood losing all consciousness, at last my soul went out of my body; though my body still continued to sway as a pendulum will, long after the power which first moved it is withdrawn.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
13  But he who in the rightly regal and intelligent spirit presides over his own private dinner-table of invited guests, that man's unchallenged power and dominion of individual influence for the time; that man's royalty of state transcends Belshazzar's, for Belshazzar was not the greatest.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
14  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 Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
15  And whatever they may reveal of the divine love in the Son, the soft, curled, hermaphroditical Italian pictures, in which his idea has been most successfully embodied; these pictures, so destitute as they are of all brawniness, hint nothing of any power, but the mere negative, feminine one of submission and endurance, which on all hands it is conceded, form the peculiar practical virtues of his teachings.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
16  Secondly: People ashore have indeed some indefinite idea that a whale is an enormous creature of enormous power; but I have ever found that when narrating to them some specific example of this two-fold enormousness, they have significantly complimented me upon my facetiousness; when, I declare upon my soul, I had no more idea of being facetious than Moses, when he wrote the history of the plagues of Egypt.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
17  Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters; his straight and single lofty jet rising like a tall misanthropic spear upon a barren plain; gifted with such wondrous power and velocity in swimming, as to defy all present pursuit from man; this leviathan seems the banished and unconquerable Cain of his race, bearing for his mark that style upon his back.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
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