Herman Melville Quote

Another [sailor] has the toothache: the carpenter out pincers, and clapping one hand upon his bench bids him be seated there; but the poor fellow unmanageably winces under the unconcluded operation; whirling round the handle of his wooden vice, the carpenter signs him to clap his jaw in that, if he would have him draw the tooth.


In: Great Books of the Western World (Volume 48), Moby Dick, Chapter 107 (p. 344)


Another [sailor] has the toothache: the carpenter out pincers, and clapping one hand upon his bench bids him be seated there; but the poor fellow...

Another [sailor] has the toothache: the carpenter out pincers, and clapping one hand upon his bench bids him be seated there; but the poor fellow...

Another [sailor] has the toothache: the carpenter out pincers, and clapping one hand upon his bench bids him be seated there; but the poor fellow...

Another [sailor] has the toothache: the carpenter out pincers, and clapping one hand upon his bench bids him be seated there; but the poor fellow...