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<P 1> <C 1> CHAPTER 1 %Loomings Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen, and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprisi . . .
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ETYMOLOGY The pale Usher--threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer hankerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow reminded him of his mortality. "While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue, leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh up the signification of the word, you deliver that which is not true." HACKLUYT. "Whale. * * * Sw. and Dan. %hval. This animal is named for roundness or rolling; for in Dan. %hvalt is arched or vaulted." WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY. "Whale. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. %Wallen a.s. %Walw-ian, to roll, to wallow." RICHARDSON'S DICTIONARY. tev resh, %Hebrew. chi eta tau omicron sigma, %Greek. CETUS, Latin. . . .
