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1  The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
2  They tell me, sir, that Stubb did once desert poor little Pip, whose drowned bones now show white, for all the blackness of his living skin.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 129. The Cabin.
3  Wave after wave thus leaps into the ship, and finding no speedy vent runs roaring fore and aft, till the mariners come nigh to drowning while yet afloat.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
4  And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
5  Such, gentlemen, is the inflexibility of sea-usages and the instinctive love of neatness in seamen; some of whom would not willingly drown without first washing their faces.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
6  Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
7  Oh, thou dark Hindoo half of nature, who of drowned bones hast builded thy separate throne somewhere in the heart of these unverdured seas; thou art an infidel, thou queen, and too truly speakest to me in the wide-slaughtering Typhoon, and the hushed burial of its after calm.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 116. The Dying Whale.
8  And meet it is, that over these sea-pastures, wide-rolling watery prairies and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; for here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves but made so by their restlessness.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 111. The Pacific.