1 This, shipmates, this is that other lesson; and woe to that pilot of the living God who slights it.
2 And not only that, but moody stricken Ahab stood before them with a crucifixion in his face; in all the nameless regal overbearing dignity of some mighty woe.
3 For Lima has taken the white veil; and there is a higher horror in this whiteness of her woe.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale. 4 The truest of all men was the Man of Sorrows, and the truest of all books is Solomon's, and Ecclesiastes is the fine hammered steel of woe.
5 There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.
6 Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe.
7 But war is pain, and hate is woe.
8 Between the shame of this and his woe Jurgis could not stand it, and got up and rushed out into the rain.
9 They told a tale of woe which was then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension; they were tones loud, long, and deep; they breathed the prayer and complaint of souls boiling over with the bitterest anguish.
10 As the youth looked at them the black weight of his woe returned to him.
11 Me too hath a like fortune driven through many a woe, and willed at last to find my rest in this land.
12 Now the heavy hand of war dealt equal woe and counterchange of death; in even balance conquerors and conquered slew and fell; nor one nor other knows of retreat.
13 And now flying Rumour, harbinger of the heavy woe, fills Evander and Evander's house and city with the same voice that but now told of Pallas victorious over Latium.
14 Therewithal the queen with a crowd of mothers ascends bearing gifts to Pallas' towered temple, and by her side goes maiden Lavinia, source of all that woe, her beautiful eyes cast down.
15 Learn thy woe, that thou blame not me for it, Juturna.