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1  That was sudden, now; but squalls come sudden in hot latitudes.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 127. The Deck.
2  Ere the squall came close to, the other boats had cut loose from their fish and returned to the ship in good time.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
3  The whole crew were half suffocated as they were tossed helter-skelter into the white curdling cream of the squall.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
4  Give way, men," whispered Starbuck, drawing still further aft the sheet of his sail; "there is time to kill a fish yet before the squall comes.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
5  From the ship, the smoke of the torments of the boiling whale is going up like the smoke over a village of smithies; and to windward, a black cloud, rising up with earnest of squalls and rains, seems to quicken the activity of the excited seamen.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and ...
6  So, with his ivory leg inserted into its accustomed hole, and with one hand firmly grasping a shroud, Ahab for hours and hours would stand gazing dead to windward, while an occasional squall of sleet or snow would all but congeal his very eyelashes together.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
7  Had you followed Captain Ahab down into his cabin after the squall that took place on the night succeeding that wild ratification of his purpose with his crew, you would have seen him go to a locker in the transom, and bringing out a large wrinkled roll of yellowish sea charts, spread them before him on his screwed-down table.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 44. The Chart.