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1  No man prefers to sleep two in a bed.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
2  I have seldom seen such brawn in a man.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
3  But I don't fancy having a man smoking in bed with me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
4  Strong intuitions of the man assure the mariners he can be no innocent.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
5  He looked like a man who had never cringed and never had had a creditor.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
6  A boggy, soggy, squitchy picture truly, enough to drive a nervous man distracted.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
7  That man next him looks a few shades lighter; you might say a touch of satin wood is in him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. Breakfast.
8  Nevertheless, a man like Queequeg you don't see every day, he and his ways were well worth unusual regarding.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
9  And the man that has anything bountifully laughable about him, be sure there is more in that man than you perhaps think for.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. Breakfast.
10  So he makes the best of it; and when the sailors find him not to be the man that is advertised, they let him pass, and he descends into the cabin.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
11  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.
12  When the revelry of his companions had mounted to its height, this man slipped away unobserved, and I saw no more of him till he became my comrade on the sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
13  The original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a restless needle sojourning in the body of a man, travelled full forty feet, and at last was found imbedded in the hump.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
14  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.
15  I then glanced round the room; and besides the bedstead and centre table, could see no other furniture belonging to the place, but a rude shelf, the four walls, and a papered fireboard representing a man striking a whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
16  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.
17  I had not been seated very long ere a man of a certain venerable robustness entered; immediately as the storm-pelted door flew back upon admitting him, a quick regardful eyeing of him by all the congregation, sufficiently attested that this fine old man was the chaplain.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
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