HERMAN MELVILLE

... like a candle moving about in a tomb At this hour of the night, of the last day of the week, that quarter of the town proved all but deserted But presently I came to a smoky light proceeding from ... be in Sumatra than here? Would he not far rather lay him down lengthwise along the line of the equator; yea, ye gods! go down to the fiery pit itself, in order to keep out this frost? Now, that

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... I live, these covered parts of him were checkered with the same squares as his face, his back, too, was all over the same dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years' War, and just ... so towards the light, that I plainly saw they could not be stickingplasters at all, those black squares on his cheeks They were stains of some sort or other At first I knew not what to make of ... un...

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... clinch the last verse of the first chapter of Jonah- 'And God had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.'" "Shipmates, this book, containing only four chapters- four yarns- is one of the ... the ship of this base treacherous world has gone down beneath him Delight is to him, who gives no quarter in the truth, and kills, burns, and destroys all sin though he pluck it out from under the

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... Nantucketers, born on a beach, should take to the sea for a livelihood! They first caught crabs and quahogs in the sand; grown bolder, they waded out with nets for mackerel; more experienced, they

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