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Herman Melville Quotes - Page 20

The Marquesan girls dance all over; not only do their feet dance, but their arms, hands, fingers, ay, their very eyes seem to dance in their heads.

Herman Melville (1860). “Typee : a peep at polynesian life, during a four months residence in a valley of the Marquesas”, p.179

Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!

Herman Melville (1962). “Billy Budd, Sailor”, p.98, University of Chicago Press