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1  "He's killed himself," she cried.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
2  Stubb's whale had been killed some distance from the ship.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
3  To neither love nor reverence wilt thou be kind; and e'en for hate thou canst but kill; and all are killed.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
4  And if you cannot kill them all at once, you must wing them, so that they can be afterwards killed at your leisure.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
5  With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
6  Now, this occasional inevitable sinking of the recently killed Sperm Whale is a very curious thing; nor has any fisherman yet adequately accounted for it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
7  Further pursuit was useless; but the boats still lingered in their wake to pick up what drugged whales might be dropped astern, and likewise to secure one which Flask had killed and waifed.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
8  For, thought Starbuck, I am here in this critical ocean to kill whales for my living, and not to be killed by them for theirs; and that hundreds of men had been so killed Starbuck well knew.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
9  But there was no help for it, so up stairs I went to my little room in the third floor, undressed myself as slowly as possible so as to kill time, and with a bitter sigh got between the sheets.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
10  These last three were brought alongside ere nightfall; but the windward one could not be reached till morning; and the boat that had killed it lay by its side all night; and that boat was Ahab's.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 117. The Whale Watch.
11  The gallant Perseus, a son of Jupiter, was the first whaleman; and to the eternal honour of our calling be it said, that the first whale attacked by our brotherhood was not killed with any sordid intent.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 82. The Honour and Glory of Whaling.
12  Now, as I before hinted, I have no objection to any person's religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don't believe it also.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
13  Beware of such an one, I say; your whales must be seen before they can be killed; and this sunken-eyed young Platonist will tow you ten wakes round the world, and never make you one pint of sperm the richer.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
14  It was after a great feast given by his father the king, on the gaining of a great battle wherein fifty of the enemy had been killed by about two o'clock in the afternoon, and all cooked and eaten that very evening.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
15  True, among the more upright and honourable whalemen allowances are always made for peculiar cases, where it would be an outrageous moral injustice for one party to claim possession of a whale previously chased or killed by another party.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
16  It frequently happens that when several ships are cruising in company, a whale may be struck by one vessel, then escape, and be finally killed and captured by another vessel; and herein are indirectly comprised many minor contingencies, all partaking of this one grand feature.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
17  It tasted something as I should conceive a royal cutlet from the thigh of Louis le Gros might have tasted, supposing him to have been killed the first day after the venison season, and that particular venison season contemporary with an unusually fine vintage of the vineyards of Champagne.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand.
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