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1  For, like his nose, his short, black little pipe was one of the regular features of his face.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
2  He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19. The Prophet.
3  A hundred black faces turned round in their rows to peer; and beyond, a black Angel of Doom was beating a book in a pulpit.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
4  Remembering the embalmed head, at first I almost thought that this black manikin was a real baby preserved in some similar manner.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
5  The Narwhale has a very picturesque, leopard-like look, being of a milk-white ground colour, dotted with round and oblong spots of black.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
6  Two enormous wooden pots painted black, and suspended by asses' ears, swung from the cross-trees of an old top-mast, planted in front of an old doorway.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15. Chowder.
7  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.
8  But at that moment he chanced to turn his face so towards the light, that I plainly saw they could not be sticking-plasters at all, those black squares on his cheeks.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
9  It was of a conical shape, some ten feet high; consisting of the long, huge slabs of limber black bone taken from the middle and highest part of the jaws of the right-whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
10  And what with the standing spectacle of the black terrific Ahab, and the periodical tumultuous visitations of these three savages, Dough-Boy's whole life was one continual lip-quiver.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
11  He sees no black sky and raging sea, feels not the reeling timbers, and little hears he or heeds he the far rush of the mighty whale, which even now with open mouth is cleaving the seas after him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
12  The chaplain had not yet arrived; and there these silent islands of men and women sat steadfastly eyeing several marble tablets, with black borders, masoned into the wall on either side the pulpit.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
13  But what most puzzled and confounded you was a long, limber, portentous, black mass of something hovering in the centre of the picture over three blue, dim, perpendicular lines floating in a nameless yeast.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
14  Through all his unearthly tattooings, I thought I saw the traces of a simple honest heart; and in his large, deep eyes, fiery black and bold, there seemed tokens of a spirit that would dare a thousand devils.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
15  Mrs. Hussey soon appeared, with a mustard-pot in one hand and a vinegar-cruet in the other, having just broken away from the occupation of attending to the castors, and scolding her little black boy meantime.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
16  Between the marble cenotaphs on either hand of the pulpit, the wall which formed its back was adorned with a large painting representing a gallant ship beating against a terrible storm off a lee coast of black rocks and snowy breakers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
17  Though his entire back down to his side fins is of a deep sable, yet a boundary line, distinct as the mark in a ship's hull, called the "bright waist," that line streaks him from stem to stern, with two separate colours, black above and white below.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
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