1 The murderous rages of the Fontaines had made County history long before this chapter had opened.
2 Wonderfullest things are ever the unmentionable; deep memories yield no epitaphs; this six-inch chapter is the stoneless grave of Bulkington.
3 A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires. 4 But thou sayest, methinks that white-lead chapter about whiteness is but a white flag hung out from a craven soul; thou surrenderest to a hypo, Ishmael.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale. 5 In the previous chapter Colnett and Cuvier have been referred to.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and... 6 All Beale's drawings of this whale are good, excepting the middle figure in the picture of three whales in various attitudes, capping his second chapter.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and... 7 A word concerning an incident in the last chapter.
8 Reference was made to the historical story of Jonah and the whale in the preceding chapter.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 83. Jonah Historically Regarded. 9 The previous chapter gave account of an immense body or herd of Sperm Whales, and there was also then given the probable cause inducing those vast aggregations.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters. 10 Of all the pre-adamite whales yet exhumed, by far the largest is the Alabama one mentioned in the last chapter, and that was less than seventy feet in length in the skeleton.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?—Will He... 11 My Lincoln chapter closed abruptly.
12 I was reading to Tom, this afternoon, that chapter in Matthew that gives an account of it, and I have been quite struck with it.
13 Of our other characters we have nothing very particular to write, except a word relating to Miss Ophelia and Topsy, and a farewell chapter, which we shall dedicate to George Shelby.
14 But, before I proceed to narrate it, and before I pass on to all the changes it involved, I must give one chapter to Estella.
15 That matter of Herbert's was still progressing, and everything with me was as I have brought it down to the close of the last preceding chapter.