Moby Dick; Or The Whale (8 x 8)

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  • 1. --Shall we keep chasing this murderous ____ till he swamps the last man
  • 5. This is a nasty night, ___
  • 8. Sir Clifford thinks of charging twopence for a peep at the whispering gallery in the spinal column; threepence to hear the ____ in the hollow of his cerebellum; and sixpence for the unrivalled view from his forehead
  • 9. They are generally Richard ___
  • 10. " However curious it may seem for an oil-ship to be borrowing oil on the whale-ground, and however much it may invertedly contradict the old proverb about carrying coals to Newcastle, yet sometimes such a thing really happens; and in the present case Captain Derick De ____ did indubitably conduct a lamp-feeder as Flask did declare
  • 11. On the second day, a sail drew near, nearer, ___ picked me up at last
  • 12. And still this hair is growing now; this moment growing, and heat must breed it; but no, it's like that ____ of common grass that will grow anywhere, between the earthy clefts of Greenland ice or in Vesuvius lava
  • 14. They had made a harpooneer of him, and that barbed iron was in ____ of a sceptre now
  • 16. Yet, when by this collision forced to turn towards home, and for long months of days and weeks, Ahab and anguish lay stretched together in one hammock, rounding in ___ winter that dreary, howling Patagonian Cape; then it was, that his torn body and gashed soul bled into one another; and so interfusing, made him mad
  • 17. A cluster of dark ____ replied, Yes
  • 21. Now sm___ fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then ___ collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago
  • 22. " "Then tell me; art thou not an arrant, all-grasping, intermeddling, monopolising, heathenish old scamp, to be one day making legs, and the next day coffins to ____ them in, and yet again life-buoys out of those same coffins
  • 23. Some six handfuls were obtained; but more was unavoidably lost in the sea, and still more, perhaps, might have been secured were it not for impatient Ahab's loud command to Stubb to desist, and come on board, else the ship would bid them good ___
  • 24. And though the other boats, unharmed, still hovered hard by; still they dared not pull into the ____ to strike, lest that should be the signal for the instant destruction of the jeopardized castaways, Ahab and all; nor in that case could they themselves hope to escape

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  • 1. --when I think of all this; only half-suspected, not so keenly known to me before--and how for forty years I have ___ upon dry salted fare--fit emblem of the dry nourishment of my soil
  • 2. 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 ___ or in Vesuvius lava
  • 3. A sky-hawk that tauntingly had followed the main-truck downwards from its natural home among the stars, pecking at the flag, and incommoding Tashtego there; this bird now chanced to intercept its broad fluttering wing between the hammer and the wood; and simultaneously feeling that etherial thrill, the submerged savage beneath, in his death-gasp, kept his hammer frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab, went down with his ship, which, like Satan, would not sink to hell till ___ had dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it
  • 4. Upon the stranger's shears were beheld the shattered, white ribs, and some few splintered planks, of what had once been a whale-boat; but you now saw through this wreck, as plainly as you see through the peeled, half-unhinged, and bleaching skeleton of a _____
  • 5. Besides, this idea of Jonah's weathering the Cape of Good Hope at so early a day would wrest the honour of the discovery of that great headland from Bartholomew Diaz, its reputed discoverer, and so make modern history a ____
  • 6. He ____ in his bed now, either, more than three hours out of the twenty-four; and he don't sleep then
  • 7. Round and round, then, and ever contracting towards the button-like black bubble at the axis of that slowly wheeling circle, like another Ixion I ___ revolve
  • 13. And this, good friends, is ambergris, worth a gold guinea an _____ to any druggist
  • 14. For as the mightiest elephant is but a terrier to Leviathan, so, compared with Leviathan's tail, his trunk is but the stalk of a ____
  • 15. thy wretched laugh, thy ____ but unresting eye; all thy strange mummeries not unmeaningly blended with the black tragedy of the melancholy ship, and mocked it
  • 16. Queen ___
  • 18. 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
  • 19. "Now," said Queequeg, quietly hauling in the line, "spos-ee him whale-e eye; why, ___ whale dead
  • 20. I won't smoke dirty pipes like Stubb, but I like cigars, and here's nine hundred and sixty of them; so here goes Flask aloft to ___ 'em out
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