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Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Melville, Herman ยท 60 words
Furthermore. you must know that when the second iron is thrown overboard, it thenceforth becomes a dangling, sharp edged terror, skittishly curvetting about both boat and whale, entangling the lines, or cutting them, and making a prodigious sensation in all directions. Nor, in general, is it possible to secure it again until the whale is fairly captured and a corpse.
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