PAGAN in Classic Quotes

1  And besides all this, there was a certain lofty bearing about the Pagan, which even his uncouthness could not altogether maim.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.

2  If there yet lurked any ice of indifference towards me in the Pagan's breast, this pleasant, genial smoke we had, soon thawed it out, and left us cronies.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.

3  Now, take away the awful fear, and my sensations at feeling the supernatural hand in mine were very similar, in their strangeness, to those which I experienced on waking up and seeing Queequeg's pagan arm thrown round me.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.

4  All these strange antics were accompanied by still stranger guttural noises from the devotee, who seemed to be praying in a sing-song or else singing some pagan psalmody or other, during which his face twitched about in the most unnatural manner.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.

5  And let no man doubt this Arkite story; for in the ancient Joppa, now Jaffa, on the Syrian coast, in one of the Pagan temples, there stood for many ages the vast skeleton of a whale, which the city's legends and all the inhabitants asserted to be the identical bones of the monster that Perseus slew.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 82. The Honour and Glory of Whaling.

6  But when three or four days had slided by, after meeting the children-seeking Rachel; and no spout had yet been seen; the monomaniac old man seemed distrustful of his crew's fidelity; at least, of nearly all except the Pagan harpooneers; he seemed to doubt, even, whether Stubb and Flask might not willingly overlook the sight he sought.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 130. The Hat.