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.
"I believe it did, sir; does the ferrule stand, sir?"
December 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
"I believe it did, sir; does the ferrule stand, sir?"
I began to twitch all over.
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I began to twitch all over.
I began to think it was high time to settle with myself at what terms I would be willing to engage for the voyage.
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I began to think it was high time to settle with myself at what terms I would be willing to engage for the voyage.
I began to grow vexed with him; it seemed so downright senseless and insane to be sitting there all day and half the night on his hams in a cold room, holding a piece of wood on his head.
December 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I began to grow vexed with him; it seemed so downright senseless and insane to be sitting there all day and half the night on his hams in a cold room, holding a piece of wood on his head.
I began to grow alarmed.
December 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I began to grow alarmed.
I assert, then, that in the wondrous bodily whiteness of the bird chiefly lurks the secret of the spell; a truth the more evinced in this, that by a solecism of terms there are birds called grey albatrosses; and these I have frequently seen, but never with such emotions as when I beheld the...
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I assert, then, that in the wondrous bodily whiteness of the bird chiefly lurks the secret of the spell; a truth the more evinced in this, that by a solecism of terms there are birds called grey albatrosses; and these I have frequently seen, but never with such emotions as when I beheld the...
I asked him why he carried such a troublesome thing with him ashore, and whether all whaling ships did not find their own harpoons.
December 2, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I asked him why he carried such a troublesome thing with him ashore, and whether all whaling ships did not find their own harpoons.
I asked him what might be his immediate purpose, touching his future movements.
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I asked him what might be his immediate purpose, touching his future movements.
"I am, sir, if it should be positively indispensable to do so; not to be got rid of, that is; which I don't take to be the fact."
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 AM
"I am, sir, if it should be positively indispensable to do so; not to be got rid of, that is; which I don't take to be the fact."
I am told, on good authority, that on the Barbary coast, a Commodore Davis of the British navy found the skeleton of a sperm whale.
December 2, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I am told, on good authority, that on the Barbary coast, a Commodore Davis of the British navy found the skeleton of a sperm whale.
"I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders."
December 2, 2025 at 2:01 AM
"I am the Fates' lieutenant; I act under orders."
I am the architect, not the builder.
December 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I am the architect, not the builder.
I am sure that I did not.
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I am sure that I did not.
"I am Stubb, and Stubb has his history; but here Stubb takes oaths that he has always been jolly!"
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"I am Stubb, and Stubb has his history; but here Stubb takes oaths that he has always been jolly!"
I am so rich, I could have given bid for bid with the wealthiest Praetorians at the auction of the Roman empire (which was the world's); and yet I owe for the flesh in the tongue I brag with.
December 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I am so rich, I could have given bid for bid with the wealthiest Praetorians at the auction of the Roman empire (which was the world's); and yet I owe for the flesh in the tongue I brag with.
"I am old;- shake hands with me, man."
December 1, 2025 at 4:02 PM
"I am old;- shake hands with me, man."
I am not superstitious, but I consider the Commodore's interview with that whale as providential.
December 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I am not superstitious, but I consider the Commodore's interview with that whale as providential.
I am no coward, but what to make of this headpeddling purple rascal altogether passed my comprehension.
December 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I am no coward, but what to make of this headpeddling purple rascal altogether passed my comprehension.
"I am mistaken then."
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
"I am mistaken then."
"I am indeed down-hearted when you walk over me."
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
"I am indeed down-hearted when you walk over me."
"I am immortal then, on land and on sea," cried Ahab, with a laugh of derision;- "Immortal on land and on sea!"
December 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM
"I am immortal then, on land and on sea," cried Ahab, with a laugh of derision;- "Immortal on land and on sea!"
I am horror-struck at this antemosaic, unsourced existence of the unspeakable terrors of the whale, which, having been before all time, must needs exist after all humane ages are over.
December 1, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I am horror-struck at this antemosaic, unsourced existence of the unspeakable terrors of the whale, which, having been before all time, must needs exist after all humane ages are over.
"I am going to put him down for the three hundredth," said Peleg, "do ye hear that, Bildad!"
December 1, 2025 at 2:01 AM
"I am going to put him down for the three hundredth," said Peleg, "do ye hear that, Bildad!"
"I am game for his crooked jaw, and for the jaws of Death too, Captain Ahab, if it fairly comes in the way of the business we follow; but I came here to hunt whales, not my commander's vengeance."
December 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
"I am game for his crooked jaw, and for the jaws of Death too, Captain Ahab, if it fairly comes in the way of the business we follow; but I came here to hunt whales, not my commander's vengeance."