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1  Now, Queequeg is my fellow man.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
2  Now in getting under weigh, the station generally occupied by the pilot is the forward part of the ship.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
3  Now, while all these ideas were passing through me like lightning, this harpooneer never noticed me at all.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
4  Now and then he stooped to pick up a patch, or save an end of tarred twine, which otherwise might have been wasted.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18. His Mark.
5  Now, this plan of Queequeg's, or rather Yojo's, touching the selection of our craft; I did not like that plan at all.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
6  Now Jonah's Captain, shipmates, was one whose discernment detects crime in any, but whose cupidity exposes it only in the penniless.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
7  Now, Bildad, I am sorry to say, had the reputation of being an incorrigible old hunks, and in his sea-going days, a bitter, hard task-master.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
8  Now, that Lazarus should lie stranded there on the curbstone before the door of Dives, this is more wonderful than that an iceberg should be moored to one of the Moluccas.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
9  Now when a country dandy like this takes it into his head to make a distinguished reputation, and joins the great whale-fishery, you should see the comical things he does upon reaching the seaport.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
10  Now having a night, a day, and still another night following before me in New Bedford, ere I could embark for my destined port, it became a matter of concernment where I was to eat and sleep meanwhile.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
11  Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
12  Now the various species of whales need some sort of popular comprehensive classification, if only an easy outline one for the present, hereafter to be filled in all its departments by subsequent laborers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
13  Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my lungs, I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
14  Now, take away the awful fear, and my sensations at feeling the supernatural hand in mine were very similar, in their strangeness, to those which I experienced on waking up and seeing Queequeg's pagan arm thrown round me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
15  Now when I looked about the quarter-deck, for some one having authority, in order to propose myself as a candidate for the voyage, at first I saw nobody; but I could not well overlook a strange sort of tent, or rather wigwam, pitched a little behind the main-mast.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
16  Now, it being Christmas when the ship shot from out her harbor, for a space we had biting Polar weather, though all the time running away from it to the southward; and by every degree and minute of latitude which we sailed, gradually leaving that merciless winter, and all its intolerable weather behind us.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
17  Now, Bildad, like Peleg, and indeed many other Nantucketers, was a Quaker, the island having been originally settled by that sect; and to this day its inhabitants in general retain in an uncommon measure the peculiarities of the Quaker, only variously and anomalously modified by things altogether alien and heterogeneous.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
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