AHAB'S in Classic Quotes

1  Come, Ahab's compliments to ye; come and see if ye can swerve me.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37. Sunset.

2  And all these subtle agencies, more and more they wrought on Ahab's texture.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb.

3  A wild, mystical, sympathetical feeling was in me; Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.

4  And then it was, that suddenly sweeping his sickle-shaped lower jaw beneath him, Moby Dick had reaped away Ahab's leg, as a mower a blade of grass in the field.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.

5  But ere stepping into the cabin doorway below, he pauses, ships a new face altogether, and, then, independent, hilarious little Flask enters King Ahab's presence, in the character of Abjectus, or the Slave.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.

6  Mark ye, be forewarned; Ahab's above the common; Ahab's been in colleges, as well as 'mong the cannibals; been used to deeper wonders than the waves; fixed his fiery lance in mightier, stranger foes than whales.'

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.