A is for Ahab
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Moby Dick, broken up into individual sentences, alphabetized, and posted at intervals for your convenience and pleasure.
"how valiantly I seek to drive out of others' hearts what's clinched so fast in mine!"
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
"how valiantly I seek to drive out of others' hearts what's clinched so fast in mine!"
How vain and foolish, then, thought I, for timid untravelled man to try to comprehend aright this wondrous whale, by merely pouring over his dead attenuated skeleton, stretched in this peaceful wood.
November 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
How vain and foolish, then, thought I, for timid untravelled man to try to comprehend aright this wondrous whale, by merely pouring over his dead attenuated skeleton, stretched in this peaceful wood.
How to cure such a dyspepsia it were hard to say, unless by administering three or four boat loads of Brandreth's pills, and then running out of harm's way, as laborers do in blasting rocks.
November 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
How to cure such a dyspepsia it were hard to say, unless by administering three or four boat loads of Brandreth's pills, and then running out of harm's way, as laborers do in blasting rocks.
"how this splinter gores me now!"
November 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
"how this splinter gores me now!"
How they use the salt, precisely- who knows?
November 26, 2025 at 8:02 AM
How they use the salt, precisely- who knows?
how they still strove through that infinite blueness to seek out the thing that might destroy them!
November 26, 2025 at 6:04 AM
how they still strove through that infinite blueness to seek out the thing that might destroy them!
How then, if so be transplanted to yon sky?
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
How then, if so be transplanted to yon sky?
How then is this?
November 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
How then is this?
How then could I unite with this wild idolator in worshipping his piece of wood?
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
How then could I unite with this wild idolator in worshipping his piece of wood?
"How the wild winds blow it; they whip it about me as the torn shreds of split sails lash the tossed ship they cling to."
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"How the wild winds blow it; they whip it about me as the torn shreds of split sails lash the tossed ship they cling to."
How the three pines shake!
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
How the three pines shake!
How the soot flies!
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
How the soot flies!
How the sea rolls swashing 'gainst the side!
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
How the sea rolls swashing 'gainst the side!
"how the richer or better is Ahab now?"
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
"how the richer or better is Ahab now?"
how that harmless question mangles Jonah!
November 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
how that harmless question mangles Jonah!
how planted upon this once scraggy scoria of a country?
November 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
how planted upon this once scraggy scoria of a country?
How plainly he's a fugitive!
November 25, 2025 at 6:01 AM
How plainly he's a fugitive!
"How old do you suppose Fedallah is, Stubb?"
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
"How old do you suppose Fedallah is, Stubb?"
"How old are you, cook?"
November 25, 2025 at 2:01 AM
"How old are you, cook?"
How obvious it is too, that this necessity for the whale's rising exposes him to all the fatal hazards of the chase.
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
How obvious it is too, that this necessity for the whale's rising exposes him to all the fatal hazards of the chase.
how oblivious were ye of old Ahab's close-coiled woe!
November 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
how oblivious were ye of old Ahab's close-coiled woe!
"How now," he soliloquized at last, withdrawing the tube, "this smoking no longer soothes."
November 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"How now," he soliloquized at last, withdrawing the tube, "this smoking no longer soothes."