I almost thought he would sink the ship before the anchor could be got up; involuntarily I paused on my handspike, and told Queequeg to do the same, thinking of the perils we both ran, in starting on the voyage with such a devil for a pilot.
Then the wild and distant seas where he rolled his island bulk; the undeliverable, nameless perils of the whale; these, with all the attending marvels of a thousand Patagonian sights and sounds, helped to sway me to my wish.
First: Though most men have some vague flitting ideas of the general perils of the grand fishery, yet they have nothing like a fixed, vivid conception of those perils, and the frequency with which they recur.
There is nothing like the perils of whaling to breed this free and easy sort of genial, desperado philosophy; and with it I now regarded this whole voyage of the Pequod, and the great White Whale its object.
Only through numberless perils to the very point whence we started, where those that we left behind secure, were all the time before us.
Among whale-wise people it has often been argued whether, considering the paramount importance of his life to the success of the voyage, it is right for a whaling captain to jeopardize that life in the active perils of the chase.
So that in many cases such a panic did he finally strike, that few who by those rumors, at least, had heard of the White Whale, few of those hunters were willing to encounter the perils of his jaw.
Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life.
Porter had given him more money, hisperils might have been less and his prospects brighter.
The roar of the sea gave the next indication of the locality to which the balloon had drifted and the first hint of the possible perils of the voyage.
Guided and fed by the friends they found here, the three reached Tennessee early in January; but their perilswere not yet over, for the mountains were constantly patrolled by Confederate guerillas.
The few survivors {469} who had escaped all these perils finally reached the Arkansas shore, which, owing to the unusual high waters, was a long distance from the channel.
Farragut, who was a man of deep religious convictions, fully realized theperils of the enterprise upon which he was entering, and did not half expect to survive it.
Quite as vivid a picture of the perils and the heroism of that great struggle could have been presented with statistics concerning the troops of any other States.
She had a rough passage of three days, the perils of which were largely increased by the fact that her crew did not as yet understand all her peculiarities.
Such an experience is enough for a lifetime, but if I am ever again called upon to face such perils as we encountered while under Africa, may God grant that I have for comrades such true-hearted, loyal friends as these.
For the first time a sudden realization of the unknown perils that lay before them flashed into the minds of the little party.
For the moment they were safe, but in that long four mile race that lay ahead many perils might be encountered, and it was even within the realm of possibilities that the fleet-footed Gallas would overtake the heavily-burdened camels.
She must again press upon his Majesty the increasing perils to the Catholic Faith and the injury to the English realm which his neglect to act was producing.
It was not for her to expose her daughter to perils which she professed to believe were threatening the lives of both of them.
Poliphil, or the lover of Polia, escapes from the perils of the forest where his earlier life was passed, by petition to the Father of Gods and Men.
And no reward," pursued he, "for the perils which we brave.
The crime once resolved upon, it was clear that the count must have reflected, and sought out the means of committing it with impunity; he must have weighed the circumstances, and estimated the perils of his act.
There are so many kinds of work in art which would protect you against the perils of riches.
Have you become known to each other as fellow-travellers on the same dark and dubious road, whom chance hath brought together, and who study to learn the tempers and dispositions of those by whom their perils are to be shared?
But I blame you more directly for having taken little care to guard him against the perils of his condition, or to tame and humble a spirit naturally haughty, overbearing, and impatient.
In the silence of our chambers, or amidst the solitudes of nature, we are open to the same incentives to prayer and praise which visited Peter on the house-top, and Paul amidst the perils of the sea.
But when the ship has reached her haven, and the perils of the sea are passed, there are dangers to be encountered on land.
They have ploughed the stormy main, they have known the perils of a treacherous sea and of a lee shore; but there are worse perils, and those perils await them in Ratcliffe-highway.
He laid the matter before them, together with the letters of the reigning duke, spoke plainly of the difficulties and perils of the mission, and asked their counsel as to what should be done.
Bettie flew with alacrity to prepare herself, willing to brave all perils in the company of John; but, coming down again, found that her mistress was also going.
No moreperils or hair-breadth escapes could be inferred from his letters than if he were merely residing abroad from choice.
They were within a day of land, too--a more welcome prospect than ever, after the perils and dangers of the night.
When they left the cottage it was much later and darker than they had expected; but Lily was unwilling again to encounter the perils of the lane, and consulted her brother whether there was not some other way.
Now only think, when Frank came home, after seven years of perils by field and flood--there she rose up to receive him as if he had been Mr. Nobody making a morning call.
They trembled for their saint as they thought of the perils of the way and the length of the journey.
Oh,' she cried, 'I can see you disbelieve my story and make light of the perils that surround me; but who are you to judge?
And talking, sir, of children and of the perils of our trade, let me now narrate to you a little incident of an explosive bomb, that fell out some weeks ago under my own observation.
But the reaction consequent on the agitation caused to her by the perils of the sea voyage now began to manifest itself.
Without these precautions, Martin, abandoned to himself and now obedient only to vague and insufficient guidance, would not have been able to escape the perils which surrounded him.
When the first Dutchmen settled at the Cape the lion was so common as to be one of the every-day perils of life.
That no one appears ever to have fallen down it and broken his neck seems to be because strangers who walk these cliffs generally do so with a very proper sense of the perils which lie in the way of those who do not exercise due caution.
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