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Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale

By Herman Melville

CHAPTER 120. The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch. from Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale. “We must send down the main-top-sail yard, sir. The band is working loose and the lee lift is half-stranded. Shall I strike it,

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CHAPTER 120. The Deck Towards the End of the First Night Watch. Ahab standing by the helm. Starbuck approaching him. “We must send down the main-top-sail yard, sir. The band is working loose and the lee lift is half-stranded. Shall I strike it, sir?” “Strike nothing; lash it. If I had sky-sail poles, I’d sway them up now.” “Sir!—in God’s name!—sir?” “Well.” “The anchors are working, sir. Shall I get them inboard?” “Strike nothing, and stir nothing, but lash everything.

The wind rises, but it has not got up to my table-lands yet. Quick, and see to it.—By masts and keels! he takes me for the hunch-backed skipper of some coasting smack. Send down my main-top-sail yard! Ho, gluepots! Loftiest trucks were made for wildest winds, and this brain-truck of mine now sails amid the cloud-scud. Shall I strike that? Oh, none but cowards send down their brain-trucks in tempest time. What a hooroosh aloft there! I would e’en take it for sublime, did I not know that the colic is a noisy malady.

Oh, take medicine, take medicine!”

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