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" Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. "
Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine - Page 475
edited by - 1925
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The New quarterly review, and digest of current literature, Volume 1

1852 - 454 pages
...to hell till she had dragged a living part of Heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with It. Now small fowls flew screaming* over the yet yawning...sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. • Such is the melancholy termination of Captain Ahab and of Mr. Herman Melville's whaling narrative....
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Moby Dick

Herman Melville - Adventure stories - 1892 - 576 pages
...to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it. Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning...sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. EPILOGUE. " AND I ONLY AM ESCAPED ALONE TO TELL THEE." Job. The drama's done. Why then here does any...
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Great Sea Stories

Joseph Lewis French - Fiction - 1921 - 364 pages
...to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it. Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning...sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. THE CORVETTE CLAYMORE From "Ninety-three," BY VICTOR HUGO THE corvette, instead of sailing south, in...
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moby-dick or the whale

herman melville - 1922 - 742 pages
...to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it. Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning...sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. EPILOGUE. ' AND I ONLY Ail ESCAPED ALONE TO TELL THEE.' Job. The drama'8 done. Why then here does any...
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Great Sea Stories

Joseph Lewis French - Fiction - 1921 - 366 pages
...her, and helmeted herself with it. Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullep white surf beat against its steep sides; then all...sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. THE CORVETTE CLAYMORE From "Ninety-three," BY VICTOR HUGO THE corvette, instead of sailing south, in...
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The Advance of the American Short Story

Edward Joseph O'Brien - Short stories, American - 1923 - 326 pages
...to Hell till she had dragged a living part of Heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it. Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning...sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago." 1 Such was the unconquerable end of Poe. How long must the battle of the American artist continue against...
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Studies in Classic American Literature

David Herbert Lawrence - American literature - 1923 - 288 pages
...ship, nailed by Tastego's hammer, the hammer of the American Indian. The eagle of the spirit. Sunk! "Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning...beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed; and then the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago." So ends one of the...
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Studies in Classic American Literature

David Herbert Lawrence - American literature - 1923 - 286 pages
...the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed; and then the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago." So ends one of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world, closing up its mystery and its...
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Herman Melville

John Freeman - 1926 - 218 pages
...to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it. "Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning...sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago." Not the least attractive feature of this prodigious invention is the voluble and vivid detail in which...
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Herman Melville

John Freeman - 1926 - 228 pages
...to hell till she had dragged a living part of heaven along with her, and helmeted herself with it. " Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning...sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago." Not the least attractive feature of this prodigious invention is the voluble and vivid detail in which...
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