Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · Moby-Dick, ch. 48 · block 29

Whereupon planting his feet firmly against two opposite planks of the boat, the gigantic negro, stooping a little, presented his flat palm to Flask’s foot, and then putting Flask’s hand on his hearse-plumed head and bidding him spring as he himself should toss, with one dexterous fling landed the little man high and dry on his shoulders. And here was Flask now standing, Daggoo with one lifted arm furnishing him with a breast-band to lean against and steady himself by.

Herman Melville · 1851
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Passage ¶1278: p. 246 (Scanned p. 246)
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