Moby Dick; Or The Whale (8 x 8)

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  • 1. comes Cancer the Crab, and drags us back; and here, going from Virtue, Leo, a roaring Lion, lies in the path--he gives a few fierce bites and surly ____ with his paw; we escape, and hail Virgo, the Virgin
  • 5. that's our first love; we marry and think to be happy for aye, when ___ comes Libra, or the Scales--happiness weighed and found wanting; and while we are very sad about that, Lord
  • 8. Vitus' imp--away, thou ____
  • 9. For this part of the Indian Ocean through which we then were voyaging is not what whalemen call a lively ground; that is, it affords fewer glimpses of porpoises, dolphins, flying-fish, and other vivacious denizens of more stirring waters, than those off the ___ de la Plata, or the in-shore ground off Peru
  • 10. "Which to secure, no skill of leach's art ____ him availle, but to returne againe To his wound's worker, that with lowly dart, Dinting his breast, had bred his restless paine, Like as the wounded whale to shore flies thro' the maine
  • 11. Lashed round and round to the fish's back; pinioned in the turns upon turns in which, during the past night, the whale had reeled the involutions of the lines around him, the half torn body of the Parsee was seen; his sable raiment frayed to shreds; his distended eyes turned full upon ___ Ahab
  • 12. " "He ____ and declares, Monsieur, that the other whale, the dried one, is far more deadly than the blasted one; in fine, Monsieur, he conjures us, as we value our lives, to cut loose from these fish
  • 14. It domineered above them so, that all their bodings, doubts, misgivings, fears, were fain to hide beneath their souls, and not sprout forth a single spear or ____
  • 16. Arter that, ___ said it wouldn't do
  • 17. " Soon they through dim, bewildering mediums saw her sidelong fading phantom, as in the gaseous ____ Morgana; only the uppermost masts out of water; while fixed by infatuation, or fidelity, or fate, to their once lofty perches, the pagan harpooneers still maintained their sinking lookouts on the sea
  • 21. Stubb saw him pause; and perhaps intending, not vainly, though, to evince his own unabated fortitude, and thus keep up a valiant place in his Captain's mind, he advanced, and eyeing the wreck exclaimed--"The thistle the ___ refused; it pricked his mouth too keenly, sir; ha
  • 22. From the boat's fragmentary stern, Fedallah incuriously and mildly ____ him; the clinging crew, at the other drifting end, could not succor him; more than enough was it for them to look to themselves
  • 23. End of Project Gutenberg's Moby Dick; or ___ Whale, by Herman Melville
  • 24. For a time, there reigned, too, a sense of peculiar dread at this flitting apparition, as if it were treacherously beckoning us on and on, in order that the monster might turn round upon us, and ____ us at last in the remotest and most savage seas

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  • 1. --Ahab will ___ off your blood, as a miller shuts his watergate upon the stream
  • 2. Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ___
  • 3. So, floating on the margin of the ensuing scene, and in full sight of it, when the halfspent suction of the sunk ship reached me, I was then, ___ slowly, drawn towards the closing vortex
  • 4. Thou showest thy black brow, _____
  • 5. The season for the Line at length drew near; and every day when Ahab, coming from his cabin, cast his eyes aloft, the vigilant helmsman would ostentatiously handle his spokes, and the eager mariners quickly run to the braces, and would stand there with all their eyes centrally fixed on the nailed doubloon; impatient for the order to point the ship's ____ for the equator
  • 6. What then can it possibly be, but sperm oil in its unmanufactured, unpolluted state, the sweetest of all ____
  • 7. Well, one day we lowered for a ___ of four or five whales, and my boat fastened to one of them; a regular circus horse he was, too, that went milling and milling round so, that my boat's crew could only trim dish, by sitting all their sterns on the outer gunwale
  • 13. The schools composing none but young and vigorous males, previously mentioned, _____ a strong contrast to the harem schools
  • 14. How the wild winds blow it; they whip it about me as the torn shreds of split sails ____ the tossed ship they cling to
  • 15. They must lead somewhere--to something ____ than common land, more palmy than the palms
  • 16. Meantime, of the broken keel of Ahab's wrecked craft the carpenter made him another leg; while still as on the night before, slouched Ahab stood fixed within his scuttle; his hid, heliotrope glance anticipatingly gone backward on its dial; ___ due eastward for the earliest sun
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  • 19. I'll ___ times girdle the unmeasured globe; yea and dive straight through it, but I'll slay him yet
  • 20. Of late years the Manilla rope has in the American fishery almost entirely superseded hemp as a material for whale-lines; for, though not so durable as hemp, it is stronger, and far more soft and elastic; and I will ___ (since there is an aesthetics in all things), is much more handsome and becoming to the boat, than hemp
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