Loose-Fish

A Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soonest catch it.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish, I say, will on reflection, be found the fundamentals of all human jurisprudence; for notwithstanding its complicated tracery of sculpture, the Temple of the Law, like the

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

What is the principle of religious belief in them but a Loose-Fish?

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

But if the doctrine of Fast-Fish be pretty generally applicable, the kindred doctrine of Loose-Fish is still more widely so.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

What was America in 1492 but a Loose-Fish, in which Columbus struck the Spanish standard by way of wailing it for his royal master and mistress?

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

What to the ostentatious smuggling verbalists are the thoughts of thinkers but Loose-Fish?

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Fast — and Loose-Fish, it is here treated of in a separate chapter, on the same courteous principle that prompts the English railways to be at the expense of a separate car, specially reserved for the accommodation of royalty.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

What is the principle of religious belief in them but a Loose-Fish?

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

But if the doctrine of Fast-Fish be pretty generally applicable, the kindred doctrine of Loose-Fish is still more widely so.

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

But ploughed up to the primary rock of the matter, the two great principles laid down in the twin whaling laws previously quoted, and applied and elucidated by Lord Ellenborough in the above cited case; these two laws touching Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish, I say, will on reflection, be found the fundamentals of all human jurisprudence;

Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855