Old whaling island off Cape Cod

Usage examples of nantucket.

This school too she gave up for the position of librarian of the Nantucket Atheneum, which office she held for nearly twenty years.

Now in our little town of Nantucket, with our little Atheneum, these volumes are in constant demand.

And if Hesione had been talking about recognizing Lafitte, I think the folks at the Nantucket, or one of her neighbors, would have overheard some of it.

Yet, this wild hint seemed inferentially negatived, by what a grey Manxman insinuated, an old sepulchral man, who, having never before sailed out of Nantucket, had never ere this laid eye upon wild Ahab.

What kind of a sleighride, in the good old winter time, is a a Nantucket sleigh ride?

And where but from Nantucket, too, did that first adventurous little sloop put forth, partly laden with imported cobblestones--so goes the story-- to throw at the whales, in order to discover when they were nigh enough to risk a harpoon from the bowsprit?

No small number of these whaling seamen belong to the Azores, where the outward bound Nantucket whalers frequently touch to augment their crews from the hardy peasants of those rocky shores.

I submitted all this to my friends Simeon Macey and Charley Coffin, of Nantucket, both messmates of mine in a certain voyage, and they united in the opinion that the reasons set forth were altogether insufficient.

Macy pro-vides this definition of awalk: “Araised platform on the roof of many old Nantucket houses, from which to look off to the sea.

Unknown to Pollard, only a few weeks earlier, on September 29, the Nantucket whaleships Equator and Balaena stopped at the Hawaiian island of Oahu for the first time.

Eddy and Pam spent a few weeks at the Bergs' Palm Beach house when no one else was there, and a few weeks out of season at a half-deserted inn on Nantucket.

The boat gathered way, heading for the riding lights of the Yare where she stood out from Nantucket Town's breakwaters.

Throughout the Pacific, and also in Nantucket, and New Bedford, and Sag Harbor, you will come across lively sketches of whales and whaling-scenes, graven by the fishermen themselves on Sperm Whale-teeth, or ladies' busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone, and other like skrimshander articles, as the whalemen call the numerous little ingenious contrivances they elaborately carve out of the rough material, in their hours of ocean leisure.

Throughout the Pacific, and also in Nantucket, and New Bedford, and Sag Harbor, you will come across lively sketches of whales and whaling-scenes, graven by the fishermen themselves on Sperm Whale-teeth, or ladies' busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone, and other like skrimshander articles, as the whalemen call the numerous little ingenious contrivances they elaborately carve out of the rough material, in their hours of ocean leisure.

Boatsteerers, su­ perb athletes with prospects of lucrative captaincies, were considered the most eligible of Nantucket bachelors.