 | herman melville - 1922 - 742 páginas
...cast Perseus. Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared...in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, h'vidly whitish. It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of... | |
 | Charles Child Walcutt - 380 páginas
...comes on deck: "Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared...you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish." And the clue is given: "It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty... | |
 | Gary Richard Thompson, Virgil Llewellyn Lokke - 1981 - 412 páginas
...overrunningly wasted all the limbs without consuming them." 30 His lividly whitish, slender, rod-like scar "resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made...tree, when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it ... ere running off into the soil." The dryness and sereness, somehow the result of his fruitless search... | |
 | Herman Melville - 1983 - 612 páginas
...cast Perseus. Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark,lividly whitish.lt resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk... | |
 | Herman Melville - 2002 - 724 páginas
...cast Perseus. Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared...in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, Hvidly whitish. It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of... | |
 | Thomas J. Campanella - 2003 - 254 páginas
...early 18505, evoked this scar in the "slender, rod-like mark, lividly whitish" on Captain Ahab's face. "It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight, lofty trunk of a great tree," Melville wrote, "when the upper lightning tearingly darts down it, and without wrenching a single twig,... | |
 | Michael T. Gilmore - 2003 - 240 páginas
...stricken oak: Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a tender rod-like mark, lividly whitish. It resembled that perpendicular seam sometimes made in the straight,... | |
 | Gesa Mackenthun - 2004 - 252 páginas
...rod-like mark' which threads its way 'out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing.' The sailors give different origins of Ahab's mark but they generally agree that he incurred it during... | |
 | Geoff Wood - 2007 - 172 páginas
...recent voyage. "Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared...clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish."47 It looked like the seam lightning might make on the trunk of a great tree. Since that incident,... | |
 | Andrea Mariani, Francesco Marroni - 2006 - 474 páginas
...his live foot: "Threading its way out fro among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared...you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish" (pp. 218-19). To a sailor from the island of Man, the prophetic Manxman, it is a "birth-mark"; to an... | |
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Threading its way out from among his grey hairs, and continuing right down one side of his tawny scorched face and neck, till it disappeared in his clothing, you saw a slender rod-like mark, lividly whitish. 