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"Nantucket" Quotes from Famous Books

... an old man of Nantucket Who kept all his cash in a bucket; But his daughter, named Nan, Ran away with a man— And ...

— Toaster's Handbook - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations • Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers

... on the island of Nantucket had also learned to kill the whales that came into shallow water. They got a man to come out from Cape Cod to show them how to go out in boats and kill whales along the coast. After a while they built small ships in which they went to sea to seek for whales, but they brought the ...

— Stories of American Life and Adventure • Edward Eggleston

... a tribe of Indians whose homes were in what is now southeastern Massachusetts and in Rhode Island east of Narragansett Bay. A few of them, also, lived on the large islands farther south, Nantucket ...

— Four American Indians - King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola • Edson L. Whitney

... my story (except for the adventurous American whalemen from Nantucket and New Bedford, and the sandal-wood cutters from New South Wales, who sometimes touched there) white men were unknown to the people of New Britain. Sometimes when the sperm-whaling fleet was cruising northwards ...

— Ridan The Devil And Other Stories - 1899 • Louis Becke

... seeing that harbour. It was the approach alone that interested him; and when he had puzzled out that there were only two practicable courses for the Sybarite to take—both bearing in a general north-westerly direction from Nantucket Shoals Light Vessel, one entering Block Island Sound from the east, between Point Judith and Block Island, the other entering the same body of water from the south, between Block Island and Montauk Point—and had satisfied himself that manifold perils to navigation hedged about both courses, more ...

— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance

Words linked to "Nantucket" : island