But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly undulated, with ironical coincidings,... Great Sea Stories - Side 165redigeret af - 1921 - 332 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| 1852 - 454 sider
...sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly undulated, with ironical coineldings, over the destroying hillows they almost touched — at that instant, a red arm and a hammer... | |
| Herman Melville - 1892 - 576 sider
...sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly...the destroying billows they almost touched ; — at th.it instant, a red arm and a hammer hovered backwardly uplifted in the open air, in the act of nailing... | |
| herman melville - 1922 - 742 sider
...sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly...coincidings, over the destroying billows they almost touched;—at that instant, a red arm and a hammer hovered backwardly uplifted in the open air, in... | |
| John Freeman - 1926 - 228 sider
...sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly...sky-hawk that tauntingly had followed the main-truck downward from its natural home among the stars, pecking at the flag, and incommoding Tashtego there... | |
| John Freeman - 1926 - 232 sider
...sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly...sky-hawk that tauntingly had followed the main-truck downward from its natural home among the stars, pecking at the flag, and incommoding Tashtego there... | |
| Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - 1988 - 1080 sider
...sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly...coincidings, over the destroying billows they almost touched;—at that instant, a red arm and a hammer hovered backwardly uplifted in the open air, in... | |
| Herman Melville - 1996 - 644 sider
...sunken head of the Indian at the main-mast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly...hammer hovered backwardly uplifted in the open air, hi the act of nailing the flag faster and yet faster to die subsiding spar. A sky-hawk that tauntingly... | |
| Cyril Lionel Robert James - 2001 - 220 sider
...sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly...coincidings, over the destroying billows they almost touched;—at that instant, a red arm and a hammer hovered backwardly uplifted in the open air, in... | |
| Cesare Casarino - 2002 - 324 sider
...just before the Pequod's final plunge, Tashtego is sighted at the top of the mainmast in the frantic "act of nailing the flag faster and yet faster to the subsiding spar." In fact, the three days of the chase at the end of the novel constitute an accelerating vortex, within... | |
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