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1  Now, then, come the grand divisions of the entire whale host.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
2  Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement of the entire case.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 49. The Hyena.
3  I lay there dismally calculating that sixteen entire hours must elapse before I could hope for a resurrection.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
4  If you are an entire stranger to their race, you might hunt over these two heads for hours, and never discover that organ.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 74. The Sperm Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
5  The prodigious strain upon the main-sail had parted the weather-sheet, and the tremendous boom was now flying from side to side, completely sweeping the entire after part of the deck.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
6  As the least tangle or kink in the coiling would, in running out, infallibly take somebody's arm, leg, or entire body off, the utmost precaution is used in stowing the line in its tub.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 60. The Line.
7  The one remaining hook, upon which the entire strain now depended, seemed every instant to be on the point of giving way; an event still more likely from the violent motions of the head.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets.
8  In one of those southern whalesmen, on a long three or four years' voyage, as often happens, the sum of the various hours you spend at the mast-head would amount to several entire months.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
9  When instantly, the entire ship careens over on her side; every bolt in her starts like the nail-heads of an old house in frosty weather; she trembles, quivers, and nods her frighted mast-heads to the sky.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 67. Cutting In.
10  First: In order to facilitate the fastening to it of an additional line from a neighboring boat, in case the stricken whale should sound so deep as to threaten to carry off the entire line originally attached to the harpoon.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 60. The Line.
11  In strange contrast to the hardly tolerable constraint and nameless invisible domineerings of the captain's table, was the entire care-free license and ease, the almost frantic democracy of those inferior fellows the harpooneers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
12  Some harpooneers will consume almost an entire morning in this business, carrying the line high aloft and then reeving it downwards through a block towards the tub, so as in the act of coiling to free it from all possible wrinkles and twists.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 60. The Line.
13  Though his entire back down to his side fins is of a deep sable, yet a boundary line, distinct as the mark in a ship's hull, called the "bright waist," that line streaks him from stem to stern, with two separate colours, black above and white below.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
14  But, with a full grown leviathan this is impossible; for the sperm whale's head embraces nearly one third of his entire bulk, and completely to suspend such a burden as that, even by the immense tackles of a whaler, this were as vain a thing as to attempt weighing a Dutch barn in jewellers' scales.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
15  That same infinitely thin, isinglass substance, which, I admit, invests the entire body of the whale, is not so much to be regarded as the skin of the creature, as the skin of the skin, so to speak; for it were simply ridiculous to say, that the proper skin of the tremendous whale is thinner and more tender than the skin of a new-born child.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 68. The Blanket.
16  When the entire ship's company were assembled, and with curious and not wholly unapprehensive faces, were eyeing him, for he looked not unlike the weather horizon when a storm is coming up, Ahab, after rapidly glancing over the bulwarks, and then darting his eyes among the crew, started from his standpoint; and as though not a soul were nigh him resumed his heavy turns upon the deck.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
17  So assured, indeed, is the fact concerning the periodicalness of the sperm whale's resorting to given waters, that many hunters believe that, could he be closely observed and studied throughout the world; were the logs for one voyage of the entire whale fleet carefully collated, then the migrations of the sperm whale would be found to correspond in invariability to those of the herring-shoals or the flights of swallows.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 44. The Chart.
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