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1  And poor little Flask, he was the youngest son, and little boy of this weary family party.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
2  And darker yet to tell, the blacksmith himself did ignorantly conduct this burglar into his family's heart.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 112. The Blacksmith.
3  I looked round me tranquilly and contentedly, like a quiet ghost with a clean conscience sitting inside the bars of a snug family vault.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 49. The Hyena.
4  It is not my intention, were it in my power, to enter into the inquiry as to the true method of dividing the cetacea into groups and families.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
5  When serenely advancing on one of these journeys, if any strange suspicious sights are seen, my lord whale keeps a wary eye on his interesting family.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 88. Schools and Schoolmasters.
6  It touches one's sense of honour, particularly if you come of an old established family in the land, the Van Rensselaers, or Randolphs, or Hardicanutes.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
7  But Death plucked down some virtuous elder brother, on whose whistling daily toil solely hung the responsibilities of some other family, and left the worse than useless old man standing, till the hideous rot of life should make him easier to harvest.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 112. The Blacksmith.
8  And what that is, we may soon gain some idea of, by imagining all the grave-yards, cemeteries, and family vaults of creation yielding up the live bodies of all the men, women, and children who were alive seventy-five years ago; and adding this countless host to the present human population of the globe.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?—Will He ...