1 "I guess this'll be their last coast for a day or two," Ethan said, looking up at the mild sky.
2 On the coast, life had mellowed--here it was young and lusty and new.
3 Scarlett never discovered just what business brought him to Atlanta, for few other blockaders found it necessary to come so far away from the coast.
4 Reared in Charleston, he knew every inlet, creek, shoal and rock of the Carolina coast near that port, and he was equally at home in the waters around Wilmington.
5 From time immemorial, the coast cities had dominated the South, commercially and otherwise.
6 He's gone on through the state to the coast.
7 Had it not been for us whalemen, that tract of land would this day perhaps have been in as howling condition as the coast of Labrador.
8 In olden times an eagle swooped down upon the New England coast, and carried off an infant Indian in his talons.
9 Until the whale fishery rounded Cape Horn, no commerce but colonial, scarcely any intercourse but colonial, was carried on between Europe and the long line of the opulent Spanish provinces on the Pacific coast.
10 He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires. 11 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 MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires. 12 The ship, however, was by no means a large one: a Russian craft built on the Siberian coast, and purchased by my uncle after bartering away the vessel in which he sailed from home.
13 I am told, on good authority, that on the Barbary coast, a Commodore Davis of the British navy found the skeleton of a sperm whale.
14 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. 15 I boarded her once at midnight somewhere off the Patagonian coast, and drank good flip down in the forecastle.