Moby Dick
Americannoun
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Those dramatic encounters later inspired Herman Melville's classic novel, Moby Dick.
From Science Daily • Mar. 23, 2026
In his 1851 novel Moby Dick, Herman Melville describes right whales as “the most venerable of the leviathans, being the one first regularly hunted by man.”
From National Geographic • Jan. 25, 2024
Antioch police said Monday that the Moby Dick ride was inspected this year and given a state permit.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2023
Auden hailed his "magnificent Moby Dick rhetoric", while Orwell said Hilton's voice was "exceedingly rare and correspondingly important" and declared he had a "considerable literary gift".
From BBC • Jul. 7, 2023
He was prepared, in his cynicism, to find Moby Dick unreadable—five hundred pages about chasing a whale?—but, as it turned out, it was entertaining.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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