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1  I'm sorry to throw cold water on the subject; but excuse me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 40. Midnight, Forecastle.
2  The sky had changed from clear, sunny cold, to driving sleet and mist.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
3  It was a very dubious-looking, nay, a very dark and dismal night, bitingly cold and cheerless.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
4  But in brief, they are these: lungs and warm blood; whereas, all other fish are lungless and cold blooded.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
5  The weather was very clear and fine, but so intolerably cold that we were obliged to keep on our fur clothing.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
6  On one side, New Bedford rose in terraces of streets, their ice-covered trees all glittering in the clear, cold air.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
7  For the height of this sort of deliciousness is to have nothing but the blanket between you and your snugness and the cold of the outer air.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11. Nightgown.
8  The more so, I say, because truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11. Nightgown.
9  But previous to turning in, I took my heavy bearskin jacket, and threw it over him, as it promised to be a very cold night; and he had nothing but his ordinary round jacket on.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
10  I began to grow vexed with him; it seemed so downright senseless and insane to be sitting there all day and half the night on his hams in a cold room, holding a piece of wood on his head.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
11  It was a short, cold Christmas; and as the short northern day merged into night, we found ourselves almost broad upon the wintry ocean, whose freezing spray cased us in ice, as in polished armor.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
12  Ship and boat diverged; the cold, damp night breeze blew between; a screaming gull flew overhead; the two hulls wildly rolled; we gave three heavy-hearted cheers, and blindly plunged like fate into the lone Atlantic.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
13  I considered the matter a moment, and then up stairs we went, and I was ushered into a small room, cold as a clam, and furnished, sure enough, with a prodigious bed, almost big enough indeed for any four harpooneers to sleep abreast.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
14  One complained of a bad cold in his head, upon which Jonah mixed him a pitch-like potion of gin and molasses, which he swore was a sovereign cure for all colds and catarrhs whatsoever, never mind of how long standing, or whether caught off the coast of Labrador, or on the weather side of an ice-island.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
15  But beginning to feel very cold now, half undressed as I was, and remembering what the landlord said about the harpooneer's not coming home at all that night, it being so very late, I made no more ado, but jumped out of my pantaloons and boots, and then blowing out the light tumbled into bed, and commended myself to the care of heaven.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
16  But I soon found that there came such a draught of cold air over me from under the sill of the window, that this plan would never do at all, especially as another current from the rickety door met the one from the window, and both together formed a series of small whirlwinds in the immediate vicinity of the spot where I had thought to spend the night.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
17  I then went on, beginning with the rise and progress of the primitive religions, and coming down to the various religions of the present time, during which time I labored to show Queequeg that all these Lents, Ramadans, and prolonged ham-squattings in cold, cheerless rooms were stark nonsense; bad for the health; useless for the soul; opposed, in short, to the obvious laws of Hygiene and common sense.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
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