Moby Dick

[Old Thunder]

The bar-room was now full of the boarders who had been dropping in the night previous, and whom I had not as yet had a good look at.

 

[Old Thunder]

They were nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and harpooners, and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards; an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey-jackets for morning gowns.

 

[Old Thunder]

You could pretty plainly tell how long each one had been ashore.

 

[Old Thunder]

This young fellow's healthy cheek is like a sun-toasted pear in hue, and would seem to smell almost as musky; he cannot have been three days landed from his Indian voyage.

 

[Old Thunder]

That man next him looks a few shades lighter; you might say a touch of satin wood is in him.

 

[Old Thunder]

In the complexion of a third still lingers a tropic tawn, but slightly bleached withal; he doubtless has tarried whole weeks ashore.

 

[Old Thunder]

But who could show a cheek like Queequeg? which, barred with various tints, seemed like the Andes' western slope, to show forth in one array, contrasting climates, zone by zone.

 

[Old Thunder]

"Grub, ho!" now cried the landlord, flinging open a door, and in we went to breakfast.

 

[Old Thunder]

They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company.

 

[Old Thunder]

Not always, though: Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the Scotch one; of all men, they possessed the least assurance in the parlor.