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1 Stubb no more strove to raise a smile; Starbuck no more strove to check one.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 130. The Hat.
2 Jonah sees this; but in vain he tries to look all ease and confidence; in vain essays his wretched smile.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
3 More than once did he put forth the faint blossom of a look, which, in any other man, would have soon flowered out in a smile.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
4 A terror to the smiling innocence of the villages through which he floats; his swart visage and bold swagger are not unshunned in cities.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
5 But poorly could I withstand them, much as in other moods I was almost ready to smile at the solemn whimsicalities of that outlandish prophet of the wharves.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
6 Nor smile so, while I write that this little black was brilliant, for even blackness has its brilliancy; behold yon lustrous ebony, panelled in king's cabinets.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
7 Judge, then, to what pitches of inflamed, distracted fury the minds of his more desperate hunters were impelled, when amid the chips of chewed boats, and the sinking limbs of torn comrades, they swam out of the white curds of the whale's direful wrath into the serene, exasperating sunlight, that smiled on, as if at a birth or a bridal.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.