Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · Moby-Dick, Extracts · block 51

————“There Leviathan,Hugest of living creatures, in the deepStretched like a promontory sleeps or swims,And seems a moving land; and at his gillsDraws in, and at his breath spouts out a sea.”

Herman Melville · 1851
Project Gutenberg #15, credited to Eugene F. Irey; updated 10 June 2026. Based on the first American edition, Harper & Brothers, 1851, according to the source catalog.
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