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1  I abandon the glory and distinction of such offices to those who like them.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
2  Ye did beget this luckless child, and have abandoned him, ye creative libertines.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.
3  The thing is common in that fishery; and in the sequel of the narrative, it will then be seen what like abandonment befell myself.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
4  case, wherein a gentleman, after in vain trying to bridle his wife's viciousness, had at last abandoned her upon the seas of life; but in the course of years, repenting of that step, he instituted an action to recover possession of her.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
5  Floating on the waves we saw the abandoned boat, as for one instant it tossed and gaped beneath the ship's bows like a chip at the base of a cataract; and then the vast hull rolled over it, and it was seen no more till it came up weltering astern.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
6  At times, for longest hours, without a single hail, they stood far parted in the starlight; Ahab in his scuttle, the Parsee by the mainmast; but still fixedly gazing upon each other; as if in the Parsee Ahab saw his forethrown shadow, in Ahab the Parsee his abandoned substance.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 130. The Hat.
7  Though, consumed with the hot fire of his purpose, Ahab in all his thoughts and actions ever had in view the ultimate capture of Moby Dick; though he seemed ready to sacrifice all mortal interests to that one passion; nevertheless it may have been that he was by nature and long habituation far too wedded to a fiery whaleman's ways, altogether to abandon the collateral prosecution of the voyage.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 46. Surmises.