Though the long period of a Southern whaling voyage (by far the longest of all voyages now or ever made by man), the peculiar perils of it, and the community of interest prevailing among a company, all of whom, high or low, depend for their profits, not upon fixed wages, but upon their common luck, together with their common vigilance, intrepidity, and hard work; though all these things do in some cases tend to beget a less rigorous discipline than in merchantmen generally; yet, never mind how much like an old Mesopotamian family these whalemen may, in some primitive instances, live together; for all that, the punctilious externals, at least, of the quarter-deck are seldom
materially relaxed, and in no instance done away.
Lady Susan had heard something so
materially to the disadvantage of my sister as to persuade her that the happiness of Mr.
Momentarily stunned, Gahan's fingers slipped from their hold upon the cordage and the man shot downward through the thin air of dying Mars toward the ground three thousand feet beneath, while upon the deck of the rolling Vanator his faithful warriors clung to their lashings all unconscious of the fate of their beloved leader; nor was it until more than an hour later, after the storm had
materially subsided, that they realized he was lost, or knew the self-sacrificing heroism of the act that had sealed his doom.
Pickwick also; and under the influence of which, that gentleman got himself into complicated entanglements with harness, and mixed up with horses and wheels of chaises, in the most surprising manner, firmly believing that by so doing he was
materially forwarding the preparations for their resuming their journey.
But the tendency to rapid sinking in this substance was in the present instance
materially counteracted by the other parts of the head remaining undetached from it, so that it sank very slowly and deliberately indeed, affording Queequeg a fair chance for performing his agile obstetrics on the run, as you may say.
It will not be easy to imagine any third mode
materially different, which could rationally be proposed.
The new Constitution is, in this respect,
materially different from the existing Confederation, as well as from that of the United Netherlands, and other similar confederacies.
It did not appear to him that Sir Walter could
materially alter his style of living in a house which had such a character of hospitality and ancient dignity to support.
My presence, however, does not appear to operate as a stimulus, and in this respect I am
materially disappointed.
My father's health was still very infirm, but not
materially worse than when I last saw him; and I was glad I had it in my power to cheer him by my return, and to amuse him with singing his favourite songs.
Angell's conclusion, after discussing the experiments of Sherrington and Cannon, is: "I would therefore submit that, so far as concerns the critical suggestions by these two psychologists, James's essential contentions are not
materially affected." If it were necessary for me to take sides on this question, I should agree with this conclusion; but I think my thesis as to the analysis of emotion can be maintained without coming to.
We steered due West ; but as the trailing of the buoys
materially impeded our progress, and we had the balloon abundantly at command, either for ascent or descent, we first threw out fifty pounds of ballast, and then wound up (by means of a windlass) so much of the rope as brought it quite clear of the sea.