Moby Dick

It was a clear steel-blue day. The firmaments of air and sea were hardly separable in that all-pervading azure; only, the pensive air was transparently pure and soft, with a woman''s look, and the robust and man-like sea heaved with long, strong, lingering swells, as Samson''s chest in his sleep.Hither, and thither, on high, glided the snow-white wings of small, unspeckled birds; these were the ge...