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1  Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
2  For all his tattooings he was on the whole a clean, comely looking cannibal.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
3  A cannibal of a craft, tricking herself forth in the chased bones of her enemies.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
4  But think not that this famous town has only harpooneers, cannibals, and bumpkins to show her visitors.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
5  The next moment the light was extinguished, and this wild cannibal, tomahawk between his teeth, sprang into bed with me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
6  Consider, once more, the universal cannibalism of the sea; all whose creatures prey upon each other, carrying on eternal war since the world began.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 58. Brit.
7  You shuddered as you gazed, and wondered what monstrous cannibal and savage could ever have gone a death-harvesting with such a hacking, horrifying implement.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
8  I was told that there were still smaller ones, but they had been lost by some little cannibal urchins, the priest's children, who had stolen them to play marbles with.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
9  In these last-mentioned haunts you see only sailors; but in New Bedford, actual cannibals stand chatting at street corners; savages outright; many of whom yet carry on their bones unholy flesh.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
10  Mark ye, be forewarned; Ahab's above the common; Ahab's been in colleges, as well as 'mong the cannibals; been used to deeper wonders than the waves; fixed his fiery lance in mightier, stranger foes than whales.'
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
11  As we were walking down the end of the wharf towards the ship, Queequeg carrying his harpoon, Captain Peleg in his gruff voice loudly hailed us from his wigwam, saying he had not suspected my friend was a cannibal, and furthermore announcing that he let no cannibals on board that craft, unless they previously produced their papers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18. His Mark.
12  As we were walking down the end of the wharf towards the ship, Queequeg carrying his harpoon, Captain Peleg in his gruff voice loudly hailed us from his wigwam, saying he had not suspected my friend was a cannibal, and furthermore announcing that he let no cannibals on board that craft, unless they previously produced their papers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18. His Mark.