A is for Ahab
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Moby Dick, broken up into individual sentences, alphabetized, and posted at intervals for your convenience and pleasure.
I mark this in our old Mogul's wine; it's quite as deadening to some as filliping to others.
December 16, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I mark this in our old Mogul's wine; it's quite as deadening to some as filliping to others.
'I make no promises, turn to, I say!'
December 16, 2025 at 2:02 AM
'I make no promises, turn to, I say!'
"'I make no promise; to your duty!'
December 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
"'I make no promise; to your duty!'
"I make a leg for Captain Ahab, and he wears it like a gentleman; but I make a bandbox for Queequeg, and he won't put his head into it."
December 15, 2025 at 10:02 PM
"I make a leg for Captain Ahab, and he wears it like a gentleman; but I make a bandbox for Queequeg, and he won't put his head into it."
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
December 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
I lost this leg.
December 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I lost this leg.
I looked with sympathetic awe and fearfulness upon the man, who in mid-winter just landed from a four years' dangerous voyage, could so unrestingly push off again for still another tempestuous term.
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I looked with sympathetic awe and fearfulness upon the man, who in mid-winter just landed from a four years' dangerous voyage, could so unrestingly push off again for still another tempestuous term.
I looked through the key-hole; but the door opening into an odd corner of the room, the key-hole prospect was but a crooked and sinister one.
December 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I looked through the key-hole; but the door opening into an odd corner of the room, the key-hole prospect was but a crooked and sinister one.
I looked round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet ghost with a clean conscience sitting inside the bars of a snug family vault.
December 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I looked round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet ghost with a clean conscience sitting inside the bars of a snug family vault.
I looked at the grand and glorious but saw no one to be saved.
December 15, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I looked at the grand and glorious but saw no one to be saved.
"I look, you look, he looks; we look, ye look, they look."
December 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM
"I look, you look, he looks; we look, ye look, they look."
I look round to shake hands with Shem.
December 15, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I look round to shake hands with Shem.
"I like to take in hand none but clean, virgin, fair-and-square mathematical jobs, something that regularly begins at the beginning, and is at the middle when midway, and comes to an end at the conclusion; not a cobbler's job, that's at an end in the middle, and at the beginning at the end."
December 15, 2025 at 4:02 AM
"I like to take in hand none but clean, virgin, fair-and-square mathematical jobs, something that regularly begins at the beginning, and is at the middle when midway, and comes to an end at the conclusion; not a cobbler's job, that's at an end in the middle, and at the beginning at the end."
I let them stay.
December 15, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I let them stay.
I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail.
December 15, 2025 at 12:02 AM
I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail.
"I leap with thee; I burn with thee; would fain be welded with thee; defyingly I worship thee!"
December 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
"I leap with thee; I burn with thee; would fain be welded with thee; defyingly I worship thee!"
I lay there dismally calculating that sixteen entire hours must elapse before I could hope for a resurrection.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
I lay there dismally calculating that sixteen entire hours must elapse before I could hope for a resurrection.
I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket-players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes!
December 14, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I laugh and hoot at ye, ye cricket-players, ye pugilists, ye deaf Burkes and blinded Bendigoes!
"I know, too, that ever since he lost his leg last voyage by that accursed whale, he's been a kind of moody- desperate moody, and savage sometimes; but that will all pass off."
December 14, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"I know, too, that ever since he lost his leg last voyage by that accursed whale, he's been a kind of moody- desperate moody, and savage sometimes; but that will all pass off."
I know that, to the common apprehension, this phenomenon of whiteness is not confessed to be the prime agent in exaggerating the terror of objects otherwise terrible; nor to the unimaginative mind is there aught of terror in those appearances whose awfulness to another mind almost solely...
December 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I know that, to the common apprehension, this phenomenon of whiteness is not confessed to be the prime agent in exaggerating the terror of objects otherwise terrible; nor to the unimaginative mind is there aught of terror in those appearances whose awfulness to another mind almost solely...
"I know that well enough; but, d'ye see, the Captain here won't believe it; this is his first voyage; he was a Cologne manufacturer before."
December 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"I know that well enough; but, d'ye see, the Captain here won't believe it; this is his first voyage; he was a Cologne manufacturer before."
I know that this would sometimes involve a slight loss of speed in the chase; but long experience in various whalemen of more than one nation has convinced me that in the vast majority of failures in the fishery, it has not by any means been so much the speed of the whale as the before...
December 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I know that this would sometimes involve a slight loss of speed in the chase; but long experience in various whalemen of more than one nation has convinced me that in the vast majority of failures in the fishery, it has not by any means been so much the speed of the whale as the before...
I know that this queer adventure of the Gay-Header's will be sure to seem incredible to some landsmen, though they themselves may have either seen or heard of some one's falling into a cistern ashore; an accident which not seldom happens, and with much less reason too than the Indian's,...
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 AM
I know that this queer adventure of the Gay-Header's will be sure to seem incredible to some landsmen, though they themselves may have either seen or heard of some one's falling into a cistern ashore; an accident which not seldom happens, and with much less reason too than the Indian's,...
"I know that of me, which thou knowest not of thyself, oh, thou omnipotent."
December 14, 2025 at 6:01 AM
"I know that of me, which thou knowest not of thyself, oh, thou omnipotent."
"I know some o' you has berry brig mout, brigger dan oders; but then de brig mouts sometimes has de small bellies; so dat de brigness of de mout is not to swaller wid, but to bit off de blubber for de small fry ob sharks, dat can't get into de scrouge to help demselves."
December 14, 2025 at 4:02 AM
"I know some o' you has berry brig mout, brigger dan oders; but then de brig mouts sometimes has de small bellies; so dat de brigness of de mout is not to swaller wid, but to bit off de blubber for de small fry ob sharks, dat can't get into de scrouge to help demselves."