1 It's living on its hump now, like the camel, and even the largest of humps aren't inexhaustible.
2 She crept away from the hump of bedding that was Kennicott; tiptoed into the bathroom and, by the mirror in the door of the medicine-cabinet, examined her pallid face.
3 The original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a restless needle sojourning in the body of a man, travelled full forty feet, and at last was found imbedded in the hump.
4 While I was battering away at the pyramid, a sort of badger-haired old merman, with a hump on his back, takes me by the shoulders, and slews me round.
5 Thus, the sperm whale and the humpbacked whale, each has a hump; but there the similitude ceases.
6 At any rate, the popular name for him does not sufficiently distinguish him, since the sperm whale also has a hump though a smaller one.
7 For the peculiar snow-white brow of Moby Dick, and his snow-white hump, could not but be unmistakable.
8 But leaving this hint to operate as it may with the phrenologists, I would merely assume the spinal theory for a moment, in reference to the Sperm Whale's hump.
9 This august hump, if I mistake not, rises over one of the larger vertebrae, and is, therefore, in some sort, the outer convex mould of it.
10 From its relative situation then, I should call this high hump the organ of firmness or indomitableness in the Sperm Whale.
11 From this height the whale was now seen some mile or so ahead, at every roll of the sea revealing his high sparkling hump, and regularly jetting his silent spout into the air.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day. 12 Then tell her," rejoined he, "that I spake again with the black-a-visaged, hump shouldered old doctor, and he engages to bring his friend, the gentleman she wots of, aboard with him.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XXII. THE PROCESSION 13 whales, with dromedary humps, and very savage; breakfasting on three or four sailor tarts, that is whaleboats full of mariners: their deformities floundering in seas of blood and blue paint.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales. 14 No one must let him remember about having humps and dying.
15 Freddy Malins, with his hat well back on his head and his shoulders humped with cold, was puffing and steaming after his exertions.