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1  Ahab crossed the deck to gaze over on the other side; but started at two reflected, fixed eyes in the water there.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 132. The Symphony.
2  The slanting sun playing upon this crimson pond in the sea, sent back its reflection into every face, so that they all glowed to each other like red men.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
3  Here are his reflections some time after quitting the ship, during a black night in an open boat, when almost despairing of reaching any hospitable shore.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
4  As on your physiognomical voyage you sail round his vast head in your jolly-boat, your noble conceptions of him are never insulted by the reflection that he has a nose to be pulled.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 79. The Prairie.
5  While composing a little treatise on Eternity, I had the curiosity to place a mirror before me; and ere long saw reflected there, a curious involved worming and undulation in the atmosphere over my head.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
6  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.
7  I was called from these reflections by the sight of a freckled woman with yellow hair and a yellow gown, standing in the porch of the inn, under a dull red lamp swinging there, that looked much like an injured eye, and carrying on a brisk scolding with a man in a purple woollen shirt.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15. Chowder.