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1  It was nearly six o'clock, but only grey imperfect misty dawn, when we drew nigh the wharf.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21. Going Aboard.
2  Wet, drenched through, and shivering cold, despairing of ship or boat, we lifted up our eyes as the dawn came on.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
3  The grey dawn came on, and the slumbering crew arose from the boat's bottom, and ere noon the dead whale was brought to the ship.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 117. The Whale Watch.
4  Below in his hammock, Ahab did not hear of this till grey dawn, when he came to the deck; it was then recounted to him by Flask, not unaccompanied with hinted dark meanings.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 126. The Life-Buoy.
5  And so saying, he placed himself half way within the scuttle, and slouching his hat, stood there till dawn, except when at intervals rousing himself to see how the night wore on.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
6  For me, I silently recalled the mysterious shadows I had seen creeping on board the Pequod during the dim Nantucket dawn, as well as the enigmatical hintings of the unaccountable Elijah.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
7  The morning of the third day dawned fair and fresh, and once more the solitary night-man at the fore-mast-head was relieved by crowds of the daylight look-outs, who dotted every mast and almost every spar.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.