Hamlet vocabulary

so suddenly canted the boat over, that had it not been for the elevated part of the gunwale to which he then clung, Ahab would once more have been tossed into the sea. As it was, three of the oarsmen— who foreknew not the precise instant of the dart, and were therefore unprepared for its effects— these were flung out; but so fell, that, in an instant two of them clutched the gunwale again, and rising to its level on a combing wave, hurled themselves bodily inboard again; the third man helplessly dropping astern, but still afloat and swimming.

Herman Melville. Moby Dick

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If thou art privy to thy country’s fate,

Which, happily, foreknowing may avoid,

O speak!