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1  Quitting the good city of old Manhatto, I duly arrived in New Bedford.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
2  In fact, you would a good deal rather not sleep with your own brother.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
3  Bildad, thou used to be good at sharpening a lance, mend that pen, will ye.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
4  I was a good Christian; born and bred in the bosom of the infallible Presbyterian Church.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
5  However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. Breakfast.
6  The bar-room was now full of the boarders who had been dropping in the night previous, and whom I had not as yet had a good look at.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. Breakfast.
7  In a few moments the savoury steam came forth again, but with a different flavor, and in good time a fine cod-chowder was placed before us.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15. Chowder.
8  People in Nantucket invest their money in whaling vessels, the same way that you do yours in approved state stocks bringing in good interest.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
9  To be sure, it might be nothing but a good coat of tropical tanning; but I never heard of a hot sun's tanning a white man into a purplish yellow one.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
10  Whether that mattress was stuffed with corn-cobs or broken crockery, there is no telling, but I rolled about a good deal, and could not sleep for a long time.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
11  But seeing that it was not at all limber, and that it glistened a good deal like polished ebony, I concluded that it must be nothing but a wooden idol, which indeed it proved to be.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
12  So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. Breakfast.
13  And, after signing the papers, off I went; nothing doubting but that I had done a good morning's work, and that the Pequod was the identical ship that Yojo had provided to carry Queequeg and me round the Cape.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
14  At last I slid off into a light doze, and had pretty nearly made a good offing towards the land of Nod, when I heard a heavy footfall in the passage, and saw a glimmer of light come into the room from under the door.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
15  These reflections just here are occasioned by the circumstance that after we were all seated at the table, and I was preparing to hear some good stories about whaling; to my no small surprise, nearly every man maintained a profound silence.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. Breakfast.
16  Holding a light in one hand, and that identical New Zealand head in the other, the stranger entered the room, and without looking towards the bed, placed his candle a good way off from me on the floor in one corner, and then began working away at the knotted cords of the large bag I before spoke of as being in the room.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
17  I have forgotten to mention that, in many things, Queequeg placed great confidence in the excellence of Yojo's judgment and surprising forecast of things; and cherished Yojo with considerable esteem, as a rather good sort of god, who perhaps meant well enough upon the whole, but in all cases did not succeed in his benevolent designs.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
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