Hither, and thither, on high, glided the snow-white wings of small, unspeckled birds; these were the gentle thoughts of the feminine air; bu...

'That WAS a narrow escape!' said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existen...

But the interval I spent in deliberating what to say, was a fatal one. Taking up his tomahawk from the table, he examined the head of it fo...

Returning to the Spouter-Inn from the Chapel, I found Queequeg there quite alone; he having left the Chapel before the benediction some time...

Hither, and thither, on high, glided the snow-white wings of small, unspeckled birds; these were the gentle thoughts of the feminine air; b...

During the first days, they went along smoothly enough. The sea was not very unpropitious, the wind seemed stationary in the north-east, th...

Without saying a word, Queequeg, in his wild sort of way, jumped upon the bulwarks, from thence into the bows of one of the whale-boats hang...

Yet so vain is man, and so blinded by his vanity, that no writer, up to the very end of the nineteenth century, expressed any idea that inte...

But to my astonishment I discovered that with death staring him in the face Abner Perry was transformed into a new being. From his lips the...

The storm burst upon us six years ago now. As Mars approached opposition, Lavelle of Java set the wires of the astronomical exchange palpit...