1 He looked up and down the little pebbly beach till his eye lit on a fallen tree-trunk half submerged in snow.
2 He suggested the ocean beach, a tennis court, anything but the sun-blistered utility of Main Street.
3 Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion on the white coral beach, surrounded by his warlike but still deferential cubs.
4 A few years ago this same plan was adopted by the Bay whalemen of New Zealand, who, upon descrying the game, gave notice to the ready-manned boats nigh the beach.
5 And now his bandaged cry was, to beach him on the whale's topmost back.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 6 As soon as Steelkilt leaves me, I swear to beach this boat on yonder island, and remain there six days.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story. 7 Probably the mother during an important interval was sailing down the Peruvian coast, when earthquakes caused the beach to gape.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View. 8 Let the owners stand on Nantucket beach and outyell the Typhoons.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 109. Ahab and Starbuck in the Cabin. 9 He fixed his gaze upon a white sunshade that was advancing at snail's pace from the beach.
10 Looking at them reminded her of her rings, which she had given to her husband before leaving for the beach.
11 They descended the steps, and walked away together toward the beach.
12 The two women went away one morning to the beach together, arm in arm, under the huge white sunshade.
13 There were a number of bath-houses along the beach, of rough but solid construction, built with small, protecting galleries facing the water.
14 The two women had no intention of bathing; they had just strolled down to the beach for a walk and to be alone and near the water.
15 The beach was very still of human sound at that hour.