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1  No man prefers to sleep two in a bed.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
2  But we did not go to sleep without some little chat.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
3  Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
4  In fact, you would a good deal rather not sleep with your own brother.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
5  So Queequeg and I got down our traps, resolving, however, to sleep ashore till the last.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20. All Astir.
6  He aint in his bed now, either, more than three hours out of the twenty-four; and he don't sleep then.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb.
7  Below to thy nightly grave; where such as ye sleep between shrouds, to use ye to the filling one at last.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 29. Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb.
8  That is to say, they take their meals in the captain's cabin, and sleep in a place indirectly communicating with it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
9  Despairing of him, therefore, I determined to go to bed and to sleep; and no doubt, before a great while, he would follow me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
10  At any rate, I made up my mind that if it so turned out that we should sleep together, he must undress and get into bed before I did.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
11  To be sure they all sleep together in one apartment, but you have your own hammock, and cover yourself with your own blanket, and sleep in your own skin.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
12  Whether that mattress was stuffed with corn-cobs or broken crockery, there is no telling, but I rolled about a good deal, and could not sleep for a long time.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
13  Nor was there any earthly reason why I as a sailor should sleep two in a bed, more than anybody else; for sailors no more sleep two in a bed at sea, than bachelor Kings do ashore.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
14  Now having a night, a day, and still another night following before me in New Bedford, ere I could embark for my destined port, it became a matter of concernment where I was to eat and sleep meanwhile.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
15  I considered the matter a moment, and then up stairs we went, and I was ushered into a small room, cold as a clam, and furnished, sure enough, with a prodigious bed, almost big enough indeed for any four harpooneers to sleep abreast.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
16  With the landless gull, that at sunset folds her wings and is rocked to sleep between billows; so at nightfall, the Nantucketer, out of sight of land, furls his sails, and lays him to his rest, while under his very pillow rush herds of walruses and whales.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 14. Nantucket.
17  But now when the boatswain calls all hands to lighten her; when boxes, bales, and jars are clattering overboard; when the wind is shrieking, and the men are yelling, and every plank thunders with trampling feet right over Jonah's head; in all this raging tumult, Jonah sleeps his hideous sleep.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
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