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1  He thinks he breathes it first; but not so.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
2  I turned round from eyeing the bed, but he had disappeared.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
3  Nothing but two dismal tallow candles, each in a winding sheet.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
4  Ever and anon a bright, but, alas, deceptive idea would dart you through.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
5  I don't know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
6  I could not help it, but I began to feel suspicious of this "dark complexioned" harpooneer.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
7  He was trying his hand at a ship under full sail, but he didn't make much headway, I thought.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
8  At this hour of the night, of the last day of the week, that quarter of the town proved all but deserted.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
9  For to go as a passenger you must needs have a purse, and a purse is but a rag unless you have something in it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
10  I now took the measure of the bench, and found that it was a foot too short; but that could be mended with a chair.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
11  If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
12  With other men, perhaps, such things would not have been inducements; but as for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
13  To be sure they all sleep together in one apartment, but you have your own hammock, and cover yourself with your own blanket, and sleep in your own skin.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
14  Whether that mattress was stuffed with corn-cobs or broken crockery, there is no telling, but I rolled about a good deal, and could not sleep for a long time.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
15  I can compare it to nothing but a large door mat, ornamented at the edges with little tinkling tags something like the stained porcupine quills round an Indian moccasin.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
16  I then glanced round the room; and besides the bedstead and centre table, could see no other furniture belonging to the place, but a rude shelf, the four walls, and a papered fireboard representing a man striking a whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
17  But beginning to feel very cold now, half undressed as I was, and remembering what the landlord said about the harpooneer's not coming home at all that night, it being so very late, I made no more ado, but jumped out of my pantaloons and boots, and then blowing out the light tumbled into bed, and commended myself to the care of heaven.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
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