Chapter 36: Day 39: The Quarter-Deck “What is it more? From this one poor hunt, then, the best lance out of all Nantucket, surely he will...

Chapter 36: Day 38: The Quarter-Deck “But what’s this long face about, Mr. Starbuck; wilt thou not chase the white whale? art not game...

Chapter 36: Day 37: The Quarter-Deck “(Enter Ahab: Then, all.) It was not a great while after the affair of the pipe, that one morning...

Chapter 35: Day 36: The Mast-Head “There you stand, a hundred feet above the silent decks, striding along the deep, as if the masts were...

Chapter 34: Day 35: The Cabin-Tale “To have been Belshazzar, King of Babylon; and to have been Belshazzar, not haughtily but courteously,...

Chapter 33: Day 34: The Specksnyder “But Ahab, my Captain, still moves before me in all his Nantucket grimness and shagginess; and in...

Chapter 32: Day 33: Cetology “But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was...

Chapter 32: Day 32: Cetology “The Fin-Back is not gregarious. He seems a whale-hater, as some men are man-haters. Very shy; always going...

Chapter 32: Day 31: Cetology “I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must for that very reason...

Chapter 30: Day 30: The Pipe “How now,” he soliloquized at last, withdrawing the tube, “this smoking no longer soothes. Oh, my pipe! hard...

Chapter 29: Day 29: Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb “It’s very queer. Stop, Stubb; somehow, now, I don’t well know whether to go back and...

Chapter 28: Day 28: Ahab “And, by and by, it came to pass, that he was almost continually in the air; but, as yet, for all that he said,...

Chapter 28: Day 27: Ahab “There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate, [sic] unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and...

Chapter 26: Day 26: Knights and Squires “But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor...

Chapter 26: Day 25: Knights and Squires “I will have no man in my boat,” said Starbuck, “who is not afraid of a whale.” By this, he...

Chapter 23: Day 24: The Lee Shore “The port is safety, comfort, hearthstone, supper, warm blankets, friends, all that’s kind to our...

Chapter 20: Day 23: All Astir “If I had been downright honest with myself, I would have seen very plainly in my heart that I did but half...

Chapter 17: Day 23: The Mark “Young man,” said Bildad sternly, “thou art skylarking with me—explain thyself, thou young Hittite. What...

Chapter 17: Day 21: The Ramadan “Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person’s religion, be it what it may, so long as...

Chapter 17: Day 20: The Ramadan “There was Queequeg, now, certainly entertaining the most absurd notions about Yojo and his Ramadan;—but...