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1 Before showing that picture to any Nantucketer, you had best provide for your summary retreat from Nantucket.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
2 The same, I say, because in all these cases the native American liberally provides the brains, the rest of the world as generously supplying the muscles.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
3 This done, the carpenter received orders to have the leg completed that night; and to provide all the fittings for it, independent of those pertaining to the distrusted one in use.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 106. Ahab's Leg.
4 They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 89. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish.
5 And, after signing the papers, off I went; nothing doubting but that I had done a good morning's work, and that the Pequod was the identical ship that Yojo had provided to carry Queequeg and me round the Cape.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
6 Here be it said, that like the vessels of military marines, the ships of the American Whale Fleet have each a private signal; all which signals being collected in a book with the names of the respective vessels attached, every captain is provided with it.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
7 Captain Peleg seldom or never went ashore, but sat in his wigwam keeping a sharp look-out upon the hands: Bildad did all the purchasing and providing at the stores; and the men employed in the hold and on the rigging were working till long after night-fall.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 20. All Astir.
8 The wife of a whaling captain had provided the chapel with a handsome pair of red worsted man-ropes for this ladder, which, being itself nicely headed, and stained with a mahogany colour, the whole contrivance, considering what manner of chapel it was, seemed by no means in bad taste.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
9 It was but some few days after encountering the Frenchman, that a most significant event befell the most insignificant of the Pequod's crew; an event most lamentable; and which ended in providing the sometimes madly merry and predestinated craft with a living and ever accompanying prophecy of whatever shattered sequel might prove her own.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.