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1  Fedallah first descried this jet.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
2  Fedallah was motionlessly leaning over the same rail.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 132. The Symphony.
3  But one cannot sustain an indifferent air concerning Fedallah.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 50. Ahab's Boat and Crew. Fedallah.
4  For not by night, even, had Fedallah ever certainly been known to slumber, or go below.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 130. The Hat.
5  A pale, death-glimmer lit up Fedallah's sunken eyes; a hideous motion gnawed his mouth.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
6  I don't know, but I heard that gamboge ghost of a Fedallah saying so, and he seems to know all about ships' charms.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ...
7  But with all their eyes again riveted upon the swart Fedallah and his crew, the inmates of the other boats obeyed not the command.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
8  But see here, Stubb, I thought you a little boasted just now, that you meant to give Fedallah a sea-toss, if you got a good chance.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ...
9  Meantime, Fedallah was calmly eyeing the right whale's head, and ever and anon glancing from the deep wrinkles there to the lines in his own hand.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ...
10  With unastonished eyes Fedallah gazed, and crossed his arms; but the tiger-yellow crew were tumbling over each other's heads to gain the uttermost stern.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
11  Then, calling upon Fedallah to change places with him, went forward to the bows, and seizing Perth's harpoon, commanded his crew to grasp their oars and stand by to stern.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
12  As with Fedallah the day before, so Ahab was now found grimly clinging to his boat's broken half, which afforded a comparatively easy float; nor did it so exhaust him as the previous day's mishap.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day.
13  But Fedallah, putting a finger on his lip, slid over the bulwarks to take the boat's steering oar, and Ahab, swinging the cutting-tackle towards him, commanded the ship's sailors to stand by to lower.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.
14  From the boat's fragmentary stern, Fedallah incuriously and mildly eyed him; the clinging crew, at the other drifting end, could not succor him; more than enough was it for them to look to themselves.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
15  But be all this as it may, certain it is that while the subordinate phantoms soon found their place among the crew, though still as it were somehow distinct from them, yet that hair-turbaned Fedallah remained a muffled mystery to the last.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 50. Ahab's Boat and Crew. Fedallah.
16  Such an added, gliding strangeness began to invest the thin Fedallah now; such ceaseless shudderings shook him; that the men looked dubious at him; half uncertain, as it seemed, whether indeed he were a mortal substance, or else a tremulous shadow cast upon the deck by some unseen being's body.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 130. The Hat.