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1 There are forty and odd vertebrae in all, which in the skeleton are not locked together.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
2 Look at him; he stands upright in the tossed bow of the flying boat; wrapt in fleecy foam, the towing whale is forty feet ahead.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling.
3 Presently, as we thus glided in chase, the monster perpendicularly flitted his tail forty feet into the air, and then sank out of sight like a tower swallowed up.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
4 Forty men in one ship hunting the Sperm Whales for forty-eight months think they have done extremely well, and thank God, if at last they carry home the oil of forty fish.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 105. Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?—Will He ...
5 The original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a restless needle sojourning in the body of a man, travelled full forty feet, and at last was found imbedded in the hump.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
6 Ahab stood before him, and was lightly unwinding some thirty or forty turns to form a preliminary hand-coil to toss overboard, when the old Manxman, who was intently eyeing both him and the line, made bold to speak.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.
7 But once Tashtego's senior, an old Gay-Head Indian among the crew, superstitiously asserted that not till he was full forty years old did Ahab become that way branded, and then it came upon him, not in the fury of any mortal fray, but in an elemental strife at sea.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.