"As ashore, the ladies often cause the most terrible duels among their rival admirers; just so with the whales, who sometimes come to deadly battle, and all for love."Ishmael discuses the differences between the sexes of the wh...

"Owing to the density of the crowd of reposing whales, more immediately surrounding the embayed axis of the herd, no possible chance of escape was at present afforded us. We must watch for a breach in the living wall that hemmed us in; the ...

"Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will." We're talking about the tail of the whale. 

"And how nobly it raises our conceit of the mighty, misty monster, to behold him solemnly sailing through a calm tropical sea; his vast, mild head overhung by a canopy of vapor, engendered by his incommunicable contemplations, and that vapor—as...

"The agonized whale goes into his flurry; the tow-line is slackened, and the pitchpoler dropping astern, folds his hands, and mutely watches the monster die."Description of another weapons used to kill whales. 

"Possibly, too, Jonah might have ensconced himself in a hollow tooth; but, on second thoughts, the Right Whale is toothless."We're still talking about Jonah. 

"There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method."A literary comparison of whaling heroes and myths. 

"For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in order to light the gay bridals and other merry-makings of men, and also to illuminate the solemn churches that preach unconditional inoffen...

"I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul."Ishmael talks whale phrenology. 

"As on your physiognomical voyage you sail round his vast head in your jolly-boat, your noble conceptions of him are never insulted by the reflection that he has a nose to be pulled."We discuss the pseudo science of Physiognomi...

"...smothered in the very whitest and daintiest of fragrant spermaceti; coffined, hearsed, and tombed in the secret inner chamber and sanctum sanctorum of the whale."Tashtego has a terrible accident. Queequeg saves the day.&nbs...

"Attend now, I pray you, to that marvellous and—in this particular instance—almost fatal operation whereby the Sperm Whale's great Heidelburgh Tun is tapped."We're still talking about the guts of the whale. 

"But clear Truth is a thing for salamander giants only to encounter; how small the chances for the provincials then?"Not gonna lie, I have no idea what this chapter was about. 

"I think his broad brow to be full of a prairie-like placidity, born of a speculative indifference as to death."We're still talking about Whale carcasses. 

"This whale is not dead; he is only dispirited; out of sorts, perhaps; hypochondriac; and so supine, that the hinges of his jaw have relaxed."We examine the difference in whale's heads. Eyes & ears. 

"And so flinging off its drippings, that the drops fell like bits of broken glass on the water, while the whale beyond also rose to sight, and once more the boats were free to fly."Flask and Stubb kill and whale and gossip abou...

"That unsounded ocean you gasp in, is Life; those sharks, your foes; those spades, your friends; and what between sharks and spades you are in a sad pickle and peril, poor lad."Ishmael holds Queequeg vertically by a rope while ...

"lo! a broad white shadow rose from the sea; by its quick, fanning motion, temporarily taking the breath out of the bodies of the oarsmen."The Pequod encounters another ship, The Jeroboam, which has been taken over by ...

"That head upon which the upper sun now gleams, has moved amid this world's foundations."The Whale is beheaded and Ahab asks the whale to speak. Which... the whale does not do. 

"Thus, while in life the great whale's body may have been a real terror to his foes, in his death his ghost becomes a powerless panic to a world."Thoughts on the death of a whale.

"Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and...

"The ivory Pequod was turned into what seemed a shamble; every sailor a butcher. You would have thought we were offering up ten thousand red oxen to the sea gods."The sailors cut the blubber off of the whale. A gruesome sight. ...

"These two mariners, darting their long whaling-spades, kept up an incessant murdering of the sharks*, by striking the keen steel deep into their skulls, seemingly their only vital part."The nearby sharks want a piece of that w...

"Who is not a cannibal?"Stubb eats whale. Which may or may not be civilized. And why do we eat the things we do?  And who's to say? 

"If you have never seen that sight, then suspend your decision about the propriety of devil-worship, and the expediency of conciliating the devil."Stubb teases and torments the ship's cook, Fleece, about the proper way to cook ...