“Captain Ahab shot his harpoon into Moby Dick, and that angered the whale profoundly.”

“Foremost among the whalers was the harpooner and among the great harpooners the name of Ollivierre stands out.”

“Some profit went to the boat, some went to the harpooner, some to the boat steerer and the rest to the crew.”

“If the harpooner missed once, he had only one more attempt, since only two lines could be used at any given time.”

“Lord save me, thinks I, that must be the harpooneer, the infernal head-peddler.”

“Now, while all these ideas were passing through me like lightning, this harpooneer never noticed me at all.”

“I sat down on the side of the bed, and commenced thinking about this head-peddling harpooneer, and his door mat.”