Moby Dick

by Herman Melville

the watery part of the world.

eruption of bears from Labrador.

mystifying and exasperating stories tending to beget in me an uncomfortable feeling towards the man whom you

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

pestiferously

what a word!

and palpably smells of that anointing. In truth, a mature man who uses hair-oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.

another!

Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!

For nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men, disgusted with the carking cares of earth, and seeking sentiment in tar and blubber.

the gilded velvets of butterflies, and the butterfly cheeks of young girls;