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1  Some fell flat upon their faces.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
2  Flat obedience to thy own flat commands, this is all thou breathest.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 123. The Musket.
3  Flat obedience to thy own flat commands, this is all thou breathest.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 123. The Musket.
4  Almost any one must have noticed that all the fish familiar to landsmen have not a flat, but a vertical, or up-and-down tail.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
5  The compact round body of its root expands into two broad, firm, flat palms or flukes, gradually shoaling away to less than an inch in thickness.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
6  It was a beautiful, bounteous, blue day; the spangled sea calm and cool, and flatly stretching away, all round, to the horizon, like gold-beater's skin hammered out to the extremest.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
7  Whereupon planting his feet firmly against two opposite planks of the boat, the gigantic negro, stooping a little, presented his flat palm to Flask's foot, and then putting Flask's hand on his hearse-plumed head and bidding him spring as he himself should toss, with one dexterous fling landed the little man high and dry on his shoulders.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.