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bowsprit
1. Beth sat on the most forward point of el Tiburón Limon, her feet dangling from the bowsprit, high over the water
2. My bunk was one of about twenty in the foremost crew quarters right behind the bowsprit
3. The nameless ship planed along the mist, tufts of green-white spraying up to her bowsprit as she plunged through the foggy waves
4. “Blast!” Fishmael ran to fore and then, with surprising nimbleness, ran out along the bowsprit until he was a near as possible to the fish without jumping overboard
5. Fishmael ran to the bowsprit and looked out
6. In the morning the bo'sun came along dragging after him a hose to wash the foc'sle head, and, beholding the shiny cabin lamps, resplendent in the morning light, one on each side of the bowsprit, he was paralysed with awe
7. The Canadian went to resume his post on the bobstays under the bowsprit
8. They turned the bowsprit towards Sardinia, where they intended to take in a cargo, which was to replace what had been discharged
9. Here were the Leith, Aberdeen, and Glasgow steamers, loading and unloading goods, and looking immensely high out of the water as we passed alongside; here, were colliers by the score and score, with the coal-whippers plunging off stages on deck, as counterweights to measures of coal swinging up, which were then rattled over the side into barges; here, at her moorings was to-morrow's steamer for Rotterdam, of which we took good notice; and here to-morrow's for Hamburg, under whose bowsprit we crossed
10. I shall take my time, I shall tarry and bide, till at last the right one lies waiting for me, warped out into midstream, loaded low, her bowsprit pointing down harbour
11. Justine pictured Vangy in her shorts and halter top, drink in hand, sitting cross-legged on the bowsprit under the night sky, her third husband down in the galley
12. The ironclad’s long, slender bowsprit was a lance, pointed directly at the sun settling into the broad blue waters of Hahskyn Bay in a smother of crimson ash and golden clinkers, and the day’s oppressive heat was settling into the cool of evening along with it
13. “I’ve a Mind to board ye both, Lasses,” said Cocklyn, as if this were the very Apogee of Wit, “but with yer Decks awash so, I’ll ’ave to save me Sail fer a better Wind, tho’ me Bowsprit is sound as any, ho, ho!”
14. I saw a Man blown from the Bowsprit and drown’d faster than a wicked Child can drown an Insect in a garden Rivulet
15. A Messmate of the Tar who had been flung from the Bowsprit into the Sea and drown’d, began calling for Cocklyn in an angry Voice, vowing Vengeance, blaming his Friend’s Death upon the First Mate
16. ” Were these poor Creatures not manacl’d where they lay? Were they not depriv’d of Chamber-Potts or any other civiliz’d Article in which to do Nature’s Bidding? Why e’en the Tars of the Hopewell had no better Accommodations for Nature’s Necessity than to climb out along the Bowsprit and thence discharge their Excrement into the Sea; for none but the Captain, the Surgeon, and the Sick had Close-Stools aboard our dismal little Brigantine
17. Horatio would follow me across the Bowsprit, and as we boarded the Prize we’d shout in Latin to affright our Prey
18. I look up at the Cassandra, rap’d by the Bowsprit of the Happy Delivery; both now float upon a Sea grown almost calm after the Squall
19. And ever, as the white moon shows her affrighted face from the steep gullies in the blackness overhead, aghast Jonah sees the rearing bowsprit pointing high upward, but soon beat downward again towards the tormented deep
20. So full of this reeling scene were we, as we stood by the plunging bowsprit, that for some time we did not notice the jeering glances of the passengers, a lubber-like assembly, who marvelled that two fellow beings should be so companionable; as though a white man were anything more dignified than a whitewashed negro
21. "It was at this point, gentlemen, that enraged by the defection of seven of his former associates, and stung by the mocking voice that had last hailed him, and maddened by his long entombment in a place as black as the bowels of despair; it was then that Steelkilt proposed to the two Canallers, thus far apparently of one mind with him, to burst out of their hole at the next summoning of the garrison; and armed with their keen mincing knives (long, crescentic, heavy implements with a handle at each end) run amuck from the bowsprit to the taffrail; and if by any devilishness of desperation possible, seize the ship
22. Bare-headed in the sultry sun, Ahab stood on the bowsprit, and with one hand pushed far behind in readiness to wave his orders to the helmsman, cast his eager glance in the direction indicated aloft by the outstretched motionless arm of Daggoo
23. The three men at her mast-head wore long streamers of narrow red bunting at their hats; from the stern, a whale-boat was suspended, bottom down; and hanging captive from the bowsprit was seen the long lower jaw of the last whale they had slain
24. Long maintaining an enchanted silence, Ahab stood apart; and every time the tetering ship loweringly pitched down her bowsprit, he turned to eye the bright sun's rays produced ahead; and when she profoundly settled by the stern, he turned behind, and saw the sun's rearward place, and how the same yellow rays were blending with his undeviating wake
25. Meantime, for that one beholding instant, Tashtego's mast-head hammer remained suspended in his hand; and the red flag, half-wrapping him as with a plaid, then streamed itself straight out from him, as his own forward-flowing heart; while Starbuck and Stubb, standing upon the bowsprit beneath, caught sight of the down-coming monster just as soon as he
26. She was pointing up the coast, her bowsprit gone and her forward mast broken about halfway down; she listed terribly to leeward, and every third or fourth wave washed entirely over her deck
