Moby Dick; Or The Whale (8 x 8)
Across
- 1. The frenzies of the chase had by this time worked them bubblingly up, like old wine worked ____
- 5. Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the ___
- 8. And still this hair is growing now; this moment growing, and heat must breed it; but no, it's like that sort of common grass that will grow anywhere, between the earthy clefts of Greenland ice or in Vesuvius ____
- 9. 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 ___
- 10. " From the ship's bows, nearly all the seamen now hung inactive; hammers, bits of plank, lances, and harpoons, mechanically retained in their hands, just as they had darted from their various employments; all their enchanted ____ intent upon the whale, which from side to side strangely vibrating his predestinating head, sent a broad band of overspreading semicircular foam before him as he rushed
- 11. Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about--however they may thump and punch me about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way--either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should ___ each other's shoulder-blades, and be content
- 12. --The very ____ he pointed at me
- 14. So ____ rechristened the monster Zeuglodon; and in his paper read before the London Geological Society, pronounced it, in substance, one of the most extraordinary creatures which the mutations of the globe have blotted out of existence
- 16. End of Project Gutenberg's Moby Dick; or ___ Whale, by Herman Melville
- 17. Not at all, but I have ye; for at the time poor ____ fell in, the case had been nearly emptied of its lighter contents, leaving little but the dense tendinous wall of the well--a double welded, hammered substance, as I have before said, much heavier than the sea water, and a lump of which sinks in it like lead almost
- 21. But when Ahab cried out to the steersman to take new turns with the line, and hold it so; and commanded the crew to turn round on their seats, and tow the boat up to the mark; the moment the treacherous line felt that double strain and tug, it snapped in the empty ___
- 22. And what that is, we may soon gain some ____ of, by imagining all the grave-yards, cemeteries, and family vaults of creation yielding up the live bodies of all the men, women, and children who were alive seventy-five years ago; and adding this countless host to the present human population of the globe
- 23. Rains and spray had damped it; sun and wind had warped it; all the elements had combined to ___ a thing that hung so idly
- 24. is it not hard, that with this weary ____ I bear, one poor leg should have been snatched from under me
Down
- 1. See with what entire freedom the wh___man takes his handful of lamps--often but old bottles and vials, though--to the copper cooler at the try-works, and replenishes them there, as mugs of ___ at a vat
- 2. ___, ___
- 3. Inward they turned upon the soul, especially when the still mild hours of ___ came on; then, memory shot her crystals as the clear ice most forms of noiseless twilights
- 4. " "Either do that, sir, or _____ in one day more oil than we may make good in a year
- 5. " Ahab's harpoon, the one forged at Perth's fire, remained firmly lashed in its conspicuous crotch, so that it projected beyond his whale-boat's bow; but the sea that had stove its bottom had caused the loose leather sheath to drop off; and from the keen steel ____ there now came a levelled flame of pale, forked fire
- 6. Vitus' imp--away, thou ____
- 7. --Didst not ___ thy last Captain, didst thou
- 13. For at that time, and indeed _____ a comparatively late day, the precise origin of ambergris remained, like amber itself, a problem to the learned
- 14. Only one sweeter end can readily be recalled--the delicious death of an ____ honey-hunter, who seeking honey in the crotch of a hollow tree, found such exceeding store of it, that leaning too far over, it sucked him in, so that he died embalmed
- 15. did I not know thee brave as fearless fire (and as mechanical) I could swear thou ____ a poltroon
- 16. The line originally used in the fishery was of the best hemp, slightly vapoured with ___, not impregnated with it, as in the case of ordinary ropes; for while ___, as ordinarily used, makes the hemp more pliable to the rope-maker, and also renders the rope itself more convenient to the sailor for common ship use; yet, not only would the ordinary quantity too much stiffen the whale-line for the close coiling to which it must be subjected; but as most seamen are beginning to learn, ___ in general by no means adds to the rope's durability or strength, however much it may give it compactness and gloss
- 18. And now it is struck; for, starting from his trance into that unspeakable thing called his "flurry," the monster horribly wallowed in his blood, overwrapped himself in impenetrable, mad, boiling spray, so that the imperilled craft, instantly dropping astern, had much ___ blindly to struggle out from that phrensied twilight into the clear air of the day
- 19. 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 ___ rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago
- 20. When I reached it, it ___ subsided to a creamy pool