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Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Melville, Herman ยท 79 words
As the three boats lay there on that gently rolling sea, gazing down into its eternal blue noon; and as not a single groan or cry of any sort, nay, not so much as a ripple or a bubble came up from its depths; what landsman would have thought, that beneath all that silence and placidity, the utmost monster of the seas was writhing and wrenching in agony. Not eight inches of perpendicular rope were visible at the bows.
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