Perjury
Perjury is the act of lying under oath, especially when it happens in a law court. It is considered a crime because the witness has sworn not to lie, and for the credibility of the court, witness testimony must be relied on as the truth.Perjury also applies to witnesses who affirm they are telling the truth, rather than swear an oath.
so that we seemed to be sailing through boundless fields of ripe
the attack of a Sperm-Whaler like the Pequod, with open jaws sluggishly
wondrous Venetian blind in their mouths, was in that manner separated
their scythes through the long wet grass of marshy meads;
and leaving behind them endless swaths of blue upon the yellow sea.*
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of this remarkable meadow-like appearance, caused by the vast
where the Right Whale is often chased.
all reminded one of mowers. Seen from the mast-heads, especially
forms looked more like lifeless masses of rock than anything else.
at a distance will sometimes pass on the plains recumbent
blackened elevations of the soil; even so, often, with him, who for
And even when recognized at last, their immense magnitude renders
can possibly be instinct, in all parts, with the same sort of life
of the deep with the same feelings that you do those of the shore.
of the land are of their kind in the sea; and though taking a broad
to specialties, where, for example, does the ocean furnish any fish
The accursed shark alone can in any generic respect be said to bear
have ever been regarded with emotions unspeakably unsocial and repelling;
so that Columbus sailed over numberless unknown worlds to discover
terrific of all mortal disasters have immemorially and indiscriminately
the waters; though but a moment's consideration will teach that,
in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment;
and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate
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