1 Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two thirds of this terraqueous globe are the Nantucketer's.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 14. Nantucket. 2 In this enchanted mood, thy spirit ebbs away to whence it came; becomes diffused through time and space; like Crammer's sprinkled Pantheistic ashes, forming at last a part of every shore the round globe over.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head. 3 The hated whale has the round watery world to swim in, as the small gold-fish has its glassy globe.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 38. Dusk. 4 Meanwhile, the whale he had struck must also have been on its travels; no doubt it had thrice circumnavigated the globe, brushing with its flanks all the coasts of Africa; but to no purpose.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit. 5 Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 58. Brit. 6 As we walked homeward across the fields, the sun dropped and lay like a great golden globe in the low west.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: IV 7 Our house stood within a few rods of the Chesapeake Bay, whose broad bosom was ever white with sails from every quarter of the habitable globe.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick DouglassGet Context In CHAPTER X 8 On the chimney-piece, under a glass globe, stood a woman's head-dress in silver wire and orange flowers.
Les Misérables (V2) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE UNPLEASANTNESS OF RECEIVING INTO ONE'S H... 9 The globe does not perish, because it has these wounds, craters, eruptions, sulphur pits, here and there, nor because of a volcano which ejects its pus.
Les Misérables (V4) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE 10 Europe will have her amphictyons; the globe will have its amphictyons.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE HORIZON WHICH ONE BEHOLDS FROM THE SUMMIT O... 11 The sores of the human race, those great sores which cover the globe, do not halt at the red or blue lines traced upon the map.
Les Misérables (V5) By Victor HugoGet Context In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI—THE GRASS COVERS AND THE RAIN EFFACES 12 A globe of fire appeared above the glazed opening of the ceiling, casting a strong light into my chamber; and I perceived with terror that a man was standing within a few paces of me.
THE THREE MUSKETEERS By Alexandre DumasGet Context In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY 13 At these words he blew a whistle; the globe of fire which lighted the room reascended and disappeared.
THE THREE MUSKETEERS By Alexandre DumasGet Context In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY 14 The same noise of a door opening and shutting was repeated the instant afterward; the flaming globe descended afresh, and I was completely alone.
THE THREE MUSKETEERS By Alexandre DumasGet Context In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY 15 Above the figure was nothing that could be mapped elsewhere than on a celestial globe.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyGet Context In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble