1 Ray said that he would like to see the ocean; it must be a grand sight; it must be much grander than a lake, even a great big lake.
2 He suggested the ocean beach, a tennis court, anything but the sun-blistered utility of Main Street.
3 If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
4 Going forward and glancing over the weather bow, I perceived that the ship swinging to her anchor with the flood-tide, was now obliquely pointing towards the open ocean.
5 Just so with whaling, which necessitates a three-years' housekeeping upon the wide ocean, far from all grocers, costermongers, doctors, bakers, and bankers.
6 It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.
7 This chart divides the ocean into districts.
8 By night the same muteness of humanity before the shrieks of the ocean prevailed; still in silence the men swung in the bowlines; still wordless Ahab stood up to the blast.
9 The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a widow.
10 That same ocean rolls now; that same ocean destroyed the wrecked ships of last year.
11 Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the globe.
12 Thereby, the whale commanders are enabled to recognise each other upon the ocean, even at considerable distances and with no small facility.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story. 13 In three minutes, a whole mile of shoreless ocean was between Pip and Stubb.
14 Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore.
15 We were clear from the carcase; sail had been made; the wind was freshening; the wild ocean darkness was intense.