The vast swells of the omnipotent sea; the surging, hollow roar they made, as they rolled along the eight gunwales, like gigantic bowls in a boundless bowling-green; the brief suspended agony of the boat, as it would tip for an instant on the knife-like edge of the sharper waves, that almost seemed threatening to cut it in two; the sudden profound dip into the watery glens and hollows; the keen spurrings and goadings to gain the top of the opposite hill; the headlong, sled-like slide down its other side;--all these, with the cries of the headsmen and harpooneers, and the shuddering gasps of the oarsmen, with the wondrous sight of the ivory Pequod bearing down upon her boats with outstretched sails, like a wild hen after her screaming brood;--all this was thrilling. [Please select]
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The gunwales, which were very stout, were fixed in a similar manner. [Please select]
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To the gunwales amidships two of the men fastened a couple of small crotched posts. [Please select]
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They were delighted at my return, and rubbed noses with me over the gunwales. [Please select]
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[Transcriber's Footnote 1: thole-pin: Pairs of wooden pegs set in the gunwales as an oarlock. [Please select]
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But I can paddle a canoe, standing on the gunwales--could you do that. [Please select]
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It returned in about half an hour, crowded to the gunwales, carrying the dozen men. [Please select]
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