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1  But the sea rebels; he will not bear the wicked burden.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
2  Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 12. Biographical.
3  Were I the wind, I'd blow no more on such a wicked, miserable world.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
4  I don't know, Flask, but the devil is a curious chap, and a wicked one, I tell ye.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ...
5  Freely depicted in his own vocation, gentlemen, the Canaller would make a fine dramatic hero, so abundantly and picturesquely wicked is he.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
6  Your woraciousness, fellow-critters, I don't blame ye so much for; dat is natur, and can't be helped; but to gobern dat wicked natur, dat is de pint.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
7  How being an anointed pilot-prophet, or speaker of true things, and bidden by the Lord to sound those unwelcome truths in the ears of a wicked Nineveh, Jonah, appalled at the hostility he should raise, fled from his mission, and sought to escape his duty and his God by taking ship at Joppa.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
8  I partly surmise also, that this wicked charge against whalers may be likewise imputed to the existence on the coast of Greenland, in former times, of a Dutch village called Schmerenburgh or Smeerenberg, which latter name is the one used by the learned Fogo Von Slack, in his great work on Smells, a text-book on that subject.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 92. Ambergris.