... the boats with open jaws, and a lashing tail, offered appalling battle on every side ; and heedless of the irons darted at him from every boat, seemed only intent on annihilating each separate plank of which those boats were made. But... Great Sea Stories - Side 161redigeret af - 1921 - 332 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
| Herman Melville - 1892 - 576 sider
...of which those boats were made. But skilfully manoeuvred, incessantly wheeling like trained chargers in the field ; the boats for a while eluded him ;...and recrossed, and in a thousand ways entangled the slack of the three lines now fast to him, that they foreshortened, and, of themselves, warped the devoted... | |
| herman melville - 1922 - 742 sider
...of which those boats were made. But skilfully manoeuvred, incessantly wheeling like trained chargers in the field ; the boats for a while eluded him; though,...shreds. But at last in his untraceable evolutions, tho White Whale so crossed and recrossed, and in a thousand ways entangled the slack of the three lines... | |
| Herman Melville, G. Thomas Tanselle - 1988 - 1080 sider
...of which those boats were made. But skilfully manoeuvred, incessantly wheeling like trained chargers in the field; the boats for a while eluded him; though,...unearthly slogan tore every other cry but his to shreds. devoted boats towards the planted irons in him; though now for a moment the whale drew aside a little,... | |
| Herman Melville - 1996 - 644 sider
...of which those boats were made. But skilfully manoeuvred, incessantly wheeling like trained chargers in the field; the boats for a while eluded him; though,...tore every other cry but his to shreds. But at last hi his untraceable evolutions, the White Whale so crossed and recrossed, and hi a thousand ways entangled... | |
| Laurie E. Rozakis - 1999 - 500 sider
...which those boats were made. But skillfully maneuvered, incessantly wheeling like trained chargers in the field; the boats for a while eluded him; though,...unearthly slogan tore every other cry but his to shreds. " >• Round 1: Moby Dick. The leviathan bites Ahab's rowboat in half. >• Round 2: Moby Dick. Mr.... | |
| James Carroll - 2007 - 696 sider
...he was. Not only defeated by the monster he had come to tame, he had discovered it inside himself. "But at last in his untraceable evolutions, the White...and recrossed, and in a thousand ways entangled the slack of the three lines now fast to him, that they foreshortened, and, of themselves, warped the devoted... | |
| Jan Fields, Herman Melville - 2010 - 112 sider
...of which those boats were made. But skilfully manoeuvred, incessantly wheeling like trained chargers in the field; the boats for a while eluded him; though,...and recrossed, and in a thousand ways entangled the slack of the three lines now fast to him, that they foreshortened, and, of themselves, warped the devoted... | |
| |