Moby Dick; Or The Whale (8 x 8)

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  • 1. Sir Clifford thinks of charging twopence for a ____ at the whispering gallery in the spinal column; threepence to hear the echo in the hollow of his cerebellum; and sixpence for the unrivalled view from his forehead
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  • 8. I almost forgot the little ____ slate, smoothed ivory, where he figures up the latitude
  • 9. Stubb longed for vermillion stars to be painted upon the blade of his every ___; screwing each ___ in his big vice of wood, the carpenter symmetrically supplies the constellation
  • 10. 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 Rio de la Plata, or the in-shore ground off ____
  • 11. ye have not a whole body, sir; do ye but ___ poor me for your one lost leg; only tread upon me, sir; I ask no more, so I remain a part of ye
  • 12. Huge hills and mountains of casks on casks were piled upon her wharves, and side by side the world-wandering whale ships lay silent and safely moored at last; while from others came a sound of carpenters and coopers, with blended noises of fires and forges to ____ the pitch, all betokening that new cruises were on the start; that one most perilous and long voyage ended, only begins a second; and a second ended, only begins a third, and so on, for ever and for aye
  • 14. For like certain other omnivorous roving lovers that might be named, my Lord Whale has no taste for the nursery, however much for the bower; and so, being a great traveller, he leaves his anonymous babies all over the world; every ____ an exotic
  • 16. A ___ rumbling sound was heard; a subterraneous hum; and then all held their breaths; as bedraggled with trailing ropes, and harpoons, and lances, a vast form shot lengthwise, but obliquely from the sea
  • 17. In good time, nevertheless, as the ardour of youth declines; as years and dumps incr____; as reflection lends her solemn pauses; in short, as a general lassitude overtakes the sated Turk; then a love of ____ and virtue supplants the love for maidens; our Ottoman enters upon the impotent, repentant, admonitory stage of life, forswears, disbands the harem, and grown to an exemplary, sulky old soul, goes about all alone among the meridians and parallels saying his prayers, and warning each young Leviathan from his amorous errors
  • 21. Extending it upon the forecastle deck, he now proceeds cylindrically to remove its dark pelt, as an African hunter the pelt of a ___
  • 22. Dost thou ____ thy own shroud out of thyself
  • 23. At last he paused before it; and as in an already over-clouded ___ fresh troops of clouds will sometimes sail across, so over the old man's face there now stole some such added gloom as this
  • 24. The chance comparison in this chapter, between the whale and the elephant, so far as some aspects of the tail of the one and the trunk of the other are concerned, should not ____ to place those two opposite organs on an equality, much less the creatures to which they respectively belong

Down

  • 1. 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
  • 2. 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
  • 3. Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and h___ the thunder through an ___ which is smaller than a hare's
  • 4. No, when I go to sea, I go as a simple sailor, right before the mast, _____ down into the forecastle, aloft there to the royal mast-head
  • 5. these same Trades that so directly blow my good ship on; these Trades, or something like them--something so unchangeable, and full as strong, blow my keeled ____ along
  • 6. It is a thing not uncommonly happening to the whale-boats in those swarming seas; the sharks at times apparently following them in the same prescient way that vultures hover over the banners of marching regiments in the ____
  • 7. Ahab stooped to clear it; he did clear it; but the flying turn caught him round the neck, and voicelessly as Turkish mutes bowstring their victim, he was shot out of the boat, ___ the crew knew he was gone
  • 13. thought Starbuck with a shudder, sleeping in this gale, still thou steadfastly _____ thy purpose
  • 14. The sight of the splintered boat seemed to madden him, as the blood of grapes and mulberries cast before Antiochus's elephants in the ____ of Maccabees
  • 15. he soars ____ with it
  • 16. 144,000 ___
  • 18. " So saying he procured the plane; and with his old silk handkerchief first dusting the bench, vigorously set to planing away at my bed, the while grinning like an ___
  • 19. And heaved and heaved, still unrestingly heaved the black sea, as if its vast tides were a conscience; and the great mundane soul were in anguish and remorse for the long ___ and suffering it had bred
  • 20. ___ of Project Gutenberg's Moby Dick; or The Whale, by Herman Melville
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