1 His ivory leg had been snapped off, leaving but one short sharp splinter.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day. 2 With a terrific snap, every fastening went adrift; the ship righted, the carcase sank.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin. 3 This is the sort of weather when brave hearts snap ashore, and keeled hulls split at sea.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 40. Midnight, Forecastle. 4 If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die.
5 That bravely and uninjured takes the jam which would have snapped all their oaken handspikes and iron crow-bars.
6 It flew from right to left, and back again, almost in one ticking of a watch, and every instant seemed on the point of snapping into splinters.
7 They viciously snapped, not only at each other's disembowelments, but like flexible bows, bent round, and bit their own; till those entrails seemed swallowed over and over again by the same mouth, to be oppositely voided by the gaping wound.
8 At that preluding moment, ere the boat was yet snapped, Ahab, the first to perceive the whale's intent, by the crafty upraising of his head, a movement that loosed his hold for the time; at that moment his hand had made one final effort to push the boat out of the bite.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day. 9 As now he thus vainly strove, the jaw slipped from him; the frail gunwales bent in, collapsed, and snapped, as both jaws, like an enormous shears, sliding further aft, bit the craft completely in twain, and locked themselves fast again in the sea, midway between the two floating wrecks.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day. 10 Yet the voice spake true; for scarce had he pushed from the ship, when numbers of sharks, seemingly rising from out the dark waters beneath the hull, maliciously snapped at the blades of the oars, every time they dipped in the water; and in this way accompanied the boat with their bites.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day. 11 And when those defendants were remonstrated with, their captain snapped his fingers in the plaintiffs' teeth, and assured them that by way of doxology to the deed he had done, he would now retain their line, harpoons, and boat, which had remained attached to the whale at the time of the seizure.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContextHighlight In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish. 12 More and more she leans over to the whale, while every gasping heave of the windlass is answered by a helping heave from the billows; till at last, a swift, startling snap is heard; with a great swash the ship rolls upwards and backwards from the whale, and the triumphant tackle rises into sight dragging after it the disengaged semicircular end of the first strip of blubber.