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As with a low sucking sound it slowly disappeared again, Starbuck still gazing at the agitated waters where it had sunk, with a wild voice exclaimed "Almost rather had I seen Moby Dick and fought him, than to have seen thee, thou white ghost!" "What was it, Sir?" said Flask. "The great live squid, which, they say, few whale-ships ever beheld, and returned to their ports to tell of it."
Starbuck leaned over and thrust the piece of paper into the fire, turned about with it blazing in his hand and applied it to his pipe. "Do you know what that means, Starbuck?" The old man puffed at his pipe, drew the blazing paper through his hand, put out the fire, removed his pipe, studied a moment and said: "Yes. It means that I may have to kill you."
"That's true." "Starbuck, ain't yo' eyes wide enough open to see that I kin ruin you?" "Yes, Lije, with his eyes half shet a man kin see a rattlesnake." "Then with both of 'em wide open he ought to see a panther." "I'm a lookin' at you." "That's all right, Starbuck. But we've passed the time fur beatin' about the bush." "I ain't a beatin', Lije." "Starbuck, do you want to be ruined?" "Stop!"
I'll get a crucible, and into it, and dissolve myself down to one small, compendious vertebra. So. Well, well, well! Stubb knows him best of all, and Stubb always says he's queer; says nothing but that one sufficient little word queer; he's queer, says Stubb; he's queer queer, queer; and keeps dinning it into Mr. Starbuck all the time queer sir queer, queer, very queer. And here's his leg!
"Enough," replied Starbuck, "only don't hit him again, but " "Oh, I never hurt when I hit, except when I hit a whale or something of that sort; and this fellow's a weazel. What were you about saying, sir?" "Only this: go down with him, and get what thou wantest thyself." When Stubb reappeared, he came with a dark flask in one hand, and a sort of tea-caddy in the other.
"God keep us, but already my bones feel damp within me, and from the inside wet my flesh. I misdoubt me that I disobey my God in obeying him!" "Stand by to sway me up!" cried Ahab, advancing to the hempen basket. "We should meet him soon." "Aye, aye, sir," and straightway Starbuck did Ahab's bidding, and once more Ahab swung on high. A whole hour now passed; gold-beaten out to ages.
The yards were hard up; and once more the Pequod thrust her undaunted bows into the opposing wind, for the supposed fair one had only been juggling her. Meanwhile, whatever were his own secret thoughts, Starbuck said nothing, but quietly he issued all requisite orders; while Stubb and Flask who in some small degree seemed then to be sharing his feelings likewise unmurmuringly acquiesced.
"Yes, I'll be there putty soon. That's right, now, go on." At the door she halted, and before going out, summed up all her arguments a pitiful courtesy. "Mr. Starbuck," said the Judge, "I am told that in resisting arrest you so badly injured a deputy that he is not able to be here to-day. I am inclined in every way to favor you, but that, as you must know, is a very serious charge."
Before the money was gone I had found, through Judge Matthews, congenial work. There was in Cincinnati but one afternoon newspaper the Evening Times owned by Calvin W. Starbuck. He had been a practical printer but was grown very rich.
This done, with that end yet in his hand and standing beside the pin, he looked round upon his crew, sweeping from one to the other; pausing his glance long upon Daggoo, Queequeg, Tashtego; but shunning Fedallah; and then settling his firm relying eye upon the chief mate, said, "Take the rope, sir I give it into thy hands, Starbuck."
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