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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. "
Herman Melville - Page 124
by John Freeman - 1926 - 200 pages
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The New quarterly review, and digest of current literature, Volume 1

1852 - 454 pages
...frozen there: and so the hird of Heaven, with unearthly shricks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab,...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: Or, The White Whale

Herman Melville - 1892 - 576 pages
...there ; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab,...sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. EPILOGUE. " AND I OKLT 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
...frozen there; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab,...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
...there ; and so the bird of heaven, with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab,...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 - 328 pages
...frozen there; and so the bird of heaven with archangelic shrieks, and his imperial beak thrust upwards, and his whole captive form folded in the flag of Ahab,...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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Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Volume 110

Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1925 - 804 pages
...And with an art hardly to be noted elsewhere in the entire work, Melville instantly ends his story. "Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning...sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago." Had he been everywhere willing or able to let his materials in this fashion speak for themselves, "Moby...
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American Criticism

William A. Drake - Criticism - 1926 - 402 pages
...And with an art hardly to be noted elsewhere in the entire work, Melville instantly ends his story. "Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning...sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago." Had he been everywhere willing or able to let his materials in this fashion speak for themselves, Moby...
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A Book of American Literature

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Edward Douglas Snyder - American literature - 1927 - 1288 pages
...small fowls flew screaming over so the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white FITZ JAMES O'BRIEN (1828-1862) surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed and the great shroud of THE DIAMOND LENS the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. i Тнв BENDING OF THE TWIG EPILOGUE...
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