"Moby Dick" protagonist

Usage examples of ahab.

Dooly aad Ahab disappeared up the stairs, off to see what foolishness Monroe was up to.

Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air.

Why, Captain Ahab, thou hast here, then, the best and stubbornest stuff we blacksmiths ever work.

Once out on the river, the two finally relaxed, and Ahab, tired of keeping forever vigilant, fell asleep amid the cheese kegs and empty casks in the hold.

Flask through the cabin sky-light, sitting silly and dumfoundered before awful Ahab.

Parsee Ahab saw his forethrown shadow, in Ahab the Parsee his abandoned substance.

How many barrels will thy vengeance yield thee even if thou gettest it, Captain Ahab?

For a Khan of the plank, and a king of the sea and a great lord of Leviathans was Ahab.

Ahab sails in, that ship should pay something extra on its insurance policy, just as though it were loaded with powder barrels aft and boxes of lucifers forward?

Hodgson stormed about overseeing the milkers and so left the rafters and Ahab and the Moon Man to go about their business.

Almost a week had passed without adventure, though that was all right with all three of the rafters, all four if you include Ahab, who had taken to sleeping most of the day atop the sailcloth hi the hold.

From ahead, clanging through the night-time, came the sound of pots and pans being beaten together and mixed with shouts and the barking of Ahab.

He and Ahab came out onto the deck, Dooly carrying several slices of bread and a toasting fork.

Though in the course of his continual voyagings Ahab must often before have noticed a similar sight, yet, to any monomaniac man, the veriest trifles capriciously carry meanings.

Soothed again, but only soothed to deeper gloom, Ahab, who had sterned off from the whale, sat intently watching his final wanings from the now tranquil boat.