 As at last the boat was hooked from the bow along toward the gangway amidship, its keel, while yet some inches separated from the hull, harshly grated as on a sunken coral reef. It proved a huge bunch of...  Herman Melville - Page 146by John Freeman - 1926 - 204 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1855 - 714 pages
...capitals, once g,lt, the ship's name, "SAN DomKICE," each letter streakingly corroded with tricklings of copper-spike rust; while, like mourning weeds,...and fro over the name, with every hearselike roll cf the hull. As at last the boat was hooked from the bow along toward the gangway amidship, its keel,... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 684 pages
...capitals, once gilt, the ship's name, "SAN DOMIKICK," each letter streakingly corroded with tricklings of copper-spike rust; while, like mourning weeds,...and fro over the name, with every hearselike roll cf the hull. As at last the boat was hooked from the bow along toward the gangway amidship, its keel,... | |
 | Herman Melville - Literary Criticism - 1856 - 456 pages
...capitals, once gilt, the ship's name, " SAN DOMINICK," each letter streakingly corroded with tricklings of copper-spike rust ; while, like' mourning weeds,...fro over the name, with every hearselike roll of the hull. As, at last, the boat was hooked from the bow along toward the gangway amidship, its keel, while... | |
 | John Freeman - Authors, American - 1926 - 232 pages
...continually handling these dead letters, and assorting them for. the flames ? " Ironic postscript tn " Pathos is absent from the greatest of these stories,...and when Delano offered help it was curtly declined. Cereno's mind surely was unhinged, his manner resentful and splenetic or coldly sullen. Pressed to... | |
 | John Freeman - 1926 - 222 pages
...It was the "San Dominick", of sinister aspect — <"each letter streakingly corroded with tricklings of copper-spike rust ; while, like mourning weeds,...Dominick's" captain, Benito Cereno himself, a gilded, richly-dressed figure, looked ill and wretched, and was attended by a short negro with obvious affection... | |
 | Herman Melville - Fiction - 2006 - 322 pages
...corroded with tricklings of copper-spike rust; while, like mourning weeds, dark festoons of sea grass slimily swept to and fro over the name with every hearselike roll of the hulL As, at last, the boat was hooked from the bow along toward the gangway amidship, its keeL while... | |
 | Herman Melville - Fiction - 1986 - 420 pages
...out the best in Melville, who swims in them as in the sea. So we have such poetry, about a ship, as "while, like mourning weeds, dark festoons of sea-grass slimily swept to and fro ... with every hearse-like roll of the hull." Messages do not get through. And so Delano, maddeningly,... | |
 | Sterling Stuckey - Art - 1994 - 314 pages
...capitals, once gilt, the ship's name, San Dominick, each letter streakingly corroded with tricklings of copper-spike rust; while, like mourning weeds,...festoons of sea-grass slimily swept to and fro over the names, with every hearselike roll of the hull. 6 If Delano saw the legend beneath the canvassed covering,... | |
 | Herman Melville - Fiction - 1998 - 468 pages
...capitals, once gilt, the ship's name, "SAN DOMINICK,"* each letter streakingly corroded with tricklings of copper-spike rust; while, like mourning weeds,...over the name, with every hearse-like roll of the hull. As at last the boat was hooked from the bow along toward the gangway amidship, its keel, while... | |
 | Herman Melville - Fiction - 2001 - 150 pages
...capitals, once gilt, the ship's name, "SAN DOMINICK," each letter streakingly corroded with tricklings of copper-spike rust; while, like mourning weeds,...over the name, with every hearse-like roll of the hull. As, at last, the boat was hooked from the bow along toward the gangway amidship, its keel, while... | |
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