Harpooner

The harpooner and I wept with him, and swore that all three of us would ship on the whaleship Bonanza, win a big pay-day, and, still together, make a pilgrimage to Edinburgh and lay our store of money in the dear lady's lap. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On Saturday, [harpooner Bill] Chaprales placed tags on two sharks. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I alone remained among the sleeping sailormen, the giant harpooner snoring like a whale, his head upon my feet. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Scotty and I flared and raged like young cockerels, until the harpooner poured another round of drinks to enable us to forgive and make up. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Leastwise, thirty years ago, when I was in Honolulu, I met a man, an old geezer, who claimed he'd been a harpooner on a whaleship sunk by a whale off the coast of South America. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But continually, inside my head, I saw the tongue of the harpooner, covered dry with sand, as ❋ Unknown (2010)

Then the harpooner faded away into his bunk, and I was left alone, unthrown, on the field of battle. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There was a giant harpooner in the circle, whose singing was like the bellowing of bulls; and, gazing on him in amazement while he roared some song of the sea, when next I looked across the circle to Anapuni, Anapuni was gone. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In place of the gleaming silk and silver of an English costume drama, for instance, we have the patina of white clay pipes, the metallic glint of moonlight on swelling sea water or, when we first meet the Indian harpooner Queequeg Raoul Trujillo the glow of firelight on a fiercely tattooed squatting body. ❋ Nancy DeWolf Smith (2011)

It seems that afresh upon me is the thirst that was mine when tormented by the visioned tongue of the harpooner. ❋ Unknown (2010)

By this time the singing stage was reached, and I joined Scotty and the harpooner in snatches of sea songs and chanties. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The harpooner had told me terribly wonderful things of himself. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And with the blood of life thus freshening in me, my thirst multiplied on itself tenfold and my tongue and mouth and throat seemed as sanded as the tongue of the harpooner. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The harpooner and I drank on, grinning in a superior way to each other over Scotty's plight. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And the giant harpooner was still roaring, his the last sounds in my ear, as I fell back on the lauhala mat, and was to all things for the time as one dead. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Idler, how Scotty and the harpooner and myself had raked and scraped dimes and nickels with which to buy the whisky. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I knew again only that I was very thirsty, and before my swimming eyes, in mid-air and close up, dangled the sanded tongue of the harpooner. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Scotty and the harpooner and with the oyster pirates -- because it was an act that men performed with whom I wanted to behave as a man. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They commanded me to go with them, and they were not kind in their commanding; and as I uprose, the head of the giant harpooner was rolled off my feet, past the edge of the mat, into the sand. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Idler's cabin between the harpooner and the sailor, the air rich in his nostrils with the musty smell of men's sea-gear, roaring in chorus: "Yankee ship come down de ribber -- pull, my bully boys, pull!" ❋ Unknown (2010)