“but this swift motion of the deck creeps up one’s legs and tingles at the heart.

This ship and I are two brave fellows! — Ha, ha! Some one take me up, and launch me, spine-wise, on the sea, — for by live-oaks! My spine’s a keel. Ha, ha! We go the gait that leaves no dust behind!”

“There she blows — she blows! — she blows! — right ahead!” was now the mast-head cry.

“Aye, aye!” cried Stubb, “I knew it — ye can’t escape — blow on and split your spout, O whale!

The mad fiend himself is after ye! Blow your trump — blister your lungs! — Ahab will dam off your blood, as a miller shuts his watergate upon the stream!”