Before revision: In Herman Melville's Moby Dick, the lee shore is figured into one of American literature's transcendent passages, addressed to the character Bulkington: " Let me only say that it fared with him as with the storm-tossed ship, that miserably drives along the leeward land.
After revision: In Herman Melville's Moby Dick, " Let me only say that it fared with him as with the storm-tossed ship, that miserably drives along the leeward land.