And though all hands commonly disdained the capture of those inferior creatures; and though the Pequod was not commissioned to cruise for them at all, and though she had passed numbers of them near the Crozetts without lowering a boat; yet now that a Sperm Whale had been brought
alongside and beheaded, to the surprise of all, the announcement was made that a Right Whale should be captured that day, if opportunity offered.
The masts and spars, therefore, being linked to the wreck by the shrouds and the rigging, remained
alongside for four days.
Here, were the Leith, Aberdeen, and Glasgow steamers, loading and unloading goods, and looking immensely high out of the water as we passed
alongside; here, were colliers by the score and score, with the coal-whippers plunging off stages on deck, as counterweights to measures of coal swinging up, which were then rattled over the side into barges; here, at her moorings was to-morrow's steamer for Rotterdam, of which we took good notice; and here to-morrow's for Hamburg, under whose bowsprit we crossed.
The boat had lowered its sail and run
alongside. The hunter, golden bearded like a sea-king, came over the rail and dropped on deck.
The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging
alongside. It was curious and not unpleasing, how Peleg and Bildad were affected at this juncture, especially Captain Bildad.
He had a line or two rigged up to help him across the widest spaces--Long John's earrings, they were called; and he would hand himself from one place to another, now using the crutch, now trailing it
alongside by the lanyard, as quickly as another man could walk.
One fragment, fully five pounds in weight, crashed on the log
alongside of me, and such was its impact that it drove a score of splinters, like fiery needles, into my leg.
They lingered in the hop-fields on the rich bottoms, where Billy scorned to pick hops
alongside of Indians, Japanese, and Chinese.
The very fire that warmed you when you were a babby, was picked out of the river
alongside the coal barges.
She would nudge the calf with her huge shoulder, circle around and around it, then range up
alongside and repeat her nudgings and shoulderings.
The naked hulk
alongside came, And the twain were casting dice; "The game is done!
We shall next proceed to show how that government which is peculiarly called a state arises
alongside of democracy and oligarchy, and how it ought to be established; and this will at the same time show what are the proper boundaries of both these governments, for we must mark out wherein they differ from one another, and then from both these compose a state of such parts of each of them as will show from whence they were taken.