Channel billows only recoil from the base of the Eddystone, triumphantly to overleap its summit with their scud. But soon resuming his horizontal attitude, Moby Dick swam swiftly round and round the wrecked crew; sideways churning the water in his vengeful... Great Sea Stories - Side 152redigeret af - 1921 - 332 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| Herman Melville - 1892 - 576 sider
...swiftly round and round the wrecked crew ; sideways churning the water in his vengeful wake, as if lashing himself up to still another and more deadly...blood of grapes and mulberries cast before Antiochus's • TTiis -notion is peculiar to the spt=rm whale. It receives its designation (pilchpoling) from its... | |
| herman melville - 1922 - 742 sider
...swiftly round and round the wrecked crew ; sideways churning the water in his vengeful wake, as if lashing himself up to still another and more deadly...elephants in the book of Maccabees. Meanwhile Ahab halt" smothered in the foam of the whale's insolent tail, and too much of a cripple to swim,—though... | |
| Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - 1988 - 1080 sider
...swam swiftly round and round the wrecked crew; sideways churning the water in his vengeful wake, as if lashing himself up to still another and more deadly...whale's insolent tail, and too much of a cripple to swim,—though he could still keep afloat, even in the heart of such a whirlpool as that; helpless... | |
| Herman Melville - 1992 - 548 sider
...swam swiftly round and round the wrecked crew; sideways churning the water in his vengeful wake, as if lashing himself up to still another and more deadly...mulberries cast before Antiochus's elephants in the book of Maccabees.357 Meanwhile Ahab half smothered in the foam of the whale's insolent tail, and too much... | |
| William V. Spanos - 1995 - 396 sider
...swam swiftly round and round the wrecked crew, sideways churning the water in his vengeful wake, as if lashing himself up to still another and more deadly...as the blood of grapes and mulberries cast before Antiochus' elephants in the book of Maccabees Meanwhile Ahab half smothered in the foam of the whale's... | |
| Eva Hänssgen - 2003 - 300 sider
...the grated nutmeg in a swiftly stirred bowl of punch" (559). Ahab wird zum hilflosen alten Krüppel: "Meanwhile Ahab half smothered in the foam of the...insolent tail, and too much of a cripple to swim, [...]; helpless Ahab's head was seen, like a tossed bubble which the least chance shock might burst."... | |
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