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1  Yes, Ishmael, the same fate may be thine.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
2  But thou sayest, methinks that white-lead chapter about whiteness is but a white flag hung out from a craven soul; thou surrenderest to a hypo, Ishmael.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
3  I, Ishmael, was one of that crew; my shouts had gone up with the rest; my oath had been welded with theirs; and stronger I shouted, and more did I hammer and clinch my oath, because of the dread in my soul.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
4  A veritable witness have you hitherto been, Ishmael; but have a care how you seize the privilege of Jonah alone; the privilege of discoursing upon the joists and beams; the rafters, ridge-pole, sleepers, and under-pinnings, making up the frame-work of leviathan; and belike of the tallow-vats, dairy-rooms, butteries, and cheeseries in his bowels.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 102. A Bower in the Arsacides.