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It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx__ in the desert. __peak, thou vast and venerable head,_ muttered Ahab, __hich, though ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses; speak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee. Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest. That head upon which the upper sun now gleams, has moved amid this world__ foundations. Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home. Thou hast been where bell or diver never went; hast slept by many a sailor__ side, where sleepless mothers would give their lives to lay them down. Thou saw__t the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them. Thou saw__t the murdered mate when tossed by pirates from the midnight deck; for hours he fell into the deeper midnight of the insatiate maw; and his murderers still sailed on unharmed__hile swift lightnings shivered the neighboring ship that would have borne a righteous husband to outstretched, longing arms. O head! thou hast seen enough to split the planets and make an infidel of Abraham, and not one syllable is thine!

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Herman Melville

Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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Every word that he had spoken amongst the amassed beauties of Macmaster furnishings had been a link in a love-speech. It was not merely that he had confessed to her as he would have to no other soul in the world - 'To no other soul in the world,' he had said! - his doubts, his misgivings, and his fears; it was that every word he uttered and that came to her, during the lasting of that magic, had sung of passion. If he had uttered the word 'Come', she would have followed him to the bitter ends of the earth; if he had said, 'There is no hope', she would have known the finality of despair. Having said neither, she knew: 'This is our condition; so we must continue!' And she knew, too, that he was telling her that he, like her, was_ oh, say, on the side of the angels.

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Ford Madox Ford

Parade's End

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Prue__ attention stayed on their joined hands. __hat does it feel like to be touched by a man, Rosie?__he madam grew serious. ____e worked in a tavern for many years, honey. It__ been a long time since I was young and innocent like you.___lease, Rosie,_ Prue begged. __ell me what it was like before you came to work at the tavern. Were you ever with a man?__osie nodded. __ was, Prue.___hat was it like?__ears welled in the madam__ eye__, long ago memories returning to her. __t was the most wondrous pleasure you could ever imagine.__earing a knock on the door, Rosie quickly wiped away her tears.__-who is it?_-from Mistress of Purity