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1  The abounding good cheer of these English whalers is matter for historical research.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.
2  In his youth Daggoo had voluntarily shipped on board of a whaler, lying in a lonely bay on his native coast.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
3  Now, with the subordinate phantoms, what wonder remained soon waned away; for in a whaler wonders soon wane.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 50. Ahab's Boat and Crew. Fedallah.
4  I had not a little relied upon Queequeg's sagacity to point out the whaler best fitted to carry us and our fortunes securely.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
5  In like manner, the Greenland whalers sailing out of Hull or London, put in at the Shetland Islands, to receive the full complement of their crew.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
6  During my researches in the Leviathanic histories, I stumbled upon an ancient Dutch volume, which, by the musty whaling smell of it, I knew must be about whalers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.
7  Wooden whales, or whales cut in profile out of the small dark slabs of the noble South Sea war-wood, are frequently met with in the forecastles of American whalers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 57. Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in ...
8  To make them run easily and swiftly, the axles of carriages are anointed; and for much the same purpose, some whalers perform an analogous operation upon their boat; they grease the bottom.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling.
9  But no more; enough has been said to show that the old Dutch whalers of two or three centuries ago were high livers; and that the English whalers have not neglected so excellent an example.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.
10  No small number of these whaling seamen belong to the Azores, where the outward bound Nantucket whalers frequently touch to augment their crews from the hardy peasants of those rocky shores.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
11  Hence, in whale-ships and merchantmen alike, the mates have their quarters with the captain; and so, too, in most of the American whalers the harpooneers are lodged in the after part of the ship.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
12  Besides, the English whalers sometimes affect a kind of metropolitan superiority over the American whalers; regarding the long, lean Nantucketer, with his nondescript provincialisms, as a sort of sea-peasant.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 53. The Gam.
13  When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg's ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or two.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12. Biographical.
14  Concerning all this, it is much to be deplored that the mast-heads of a southern whale ship are unprovided with those enviable little tents or pulpits, called CROW'S-NESTS, in which the look-outs of a Greenland whaler are protected from the inclement weather of the frozen seas.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
15  Though, to be sure, from the small number of English whalers, such meetings do not very often occur, and when they do occur there is too apt to be a sort of shyness between them; for your Englishman is rather reserved, and your Yankee, he does not fancy that sort of thing in anybody but himself.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 53. The Gam.
16  They called him King-Post on board of the Pequod; because, in form, he could be well likened to the short, square timber known by that name in Arctic whalers; and which by the means of many radiating side timbers inserted into it, serves to brace the ship against the icy concussions of those battering seas.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
17  I partly surmise also, that this wicked charge against whalers may be likewise imputed to the existence on the coast of Greenland, in former times, of a Dutch village called Schmerenburgh or Smeerenberg, which latter name is the one used by the learned Fogo Von Slack, in his great work on Smells, a text-book on that subject.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 92. Ambergris.
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