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1  Look ye, lad; never say that on board the Pequod.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
2  A day or two passed, and there was great activity aboard the Pequod.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20. All Astir.
3  The chief mate of the Pequod was Starbuck, a native of Nantucket, and a Quaker by descent.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires.
4  At last, stepping on board the Pequod, we found everything in profound quiet, not a soul moving.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21. Going Aboard.
5  "You mean the ship Pequod, I suppose," said I, trying to gain a little more time for an uninterrupted look at him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19. The Prophet.
6  It belongs to me and Captain Bildad to see the Pequod fitted out for the voyage, and supplied with all her needs, including crew.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
7  But no wonder; there was a good deal to be done, and there is no telling how many things to be thought of, before the Pequod was fully equipped.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20. All Astir.
8  At the period of our arrival at the Island, the heaviest storage of the Pequod had been almost completed; comprising her beef, bread, water, fuel, and iron hoops and staves.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20. All Astir.
9  I peered and pryed about the Devil-dam; from her, hopped over to the Tit-bit; and finally, going on board the Pequod, looked around her for a moment, and then decided that this was the very ship for us.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
10  And, after signing the papers, off I went; nothing doubting but that I had done a good morning's work, and that the Pequod was the identical ship that Yojo had provided to carry Queequeg and me round the Cape.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
11  As I hinted before, this whalebone marquee was never pitched except in port; and on board the Pequod, for thirty years, the order to strike the tent was well known to be the next thing to heaving up the anchor.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
12  And I did not know but what the stingy old Bildad might have a mighty deal to say about shipping hands, especially as I now found him on board the Pequod, quite at home there in the cabin, and reading his Bible as if at his own fireside.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
13  Nevertheless, not three days previous, Bildad had told them that no profane songs would be allowed on board the Pequod, particularly in getting under weigh; and Charity, his sister, had placed a small choice copy of Watts in each seaman's berth.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
14  Queequeg and I had just left the Pequod, and were sauntering away from the water, for the moment each occupied with his own thoughts, when the above words were put to us by a stranger, who, pausing before us, levelled his massive forefinger at the vessel in question.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 19. The Prophet.
15  At last we rose and dressed; and Queequeg, taking a prodigiously hearty breakfast of chowders of all sorts, so that the landlady should not make much profit by reason of his Ramadan, we sallied out to board the Pequod, sauntering along, and picking our teeth with halibut bones.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
16  Chief among those who did this fetching and carrying was Captain Bildad's sister, a lean old lady of a most determined and indefatigable spirit, but withal very kindhearted, who seemed resolved that, if SHE could help it, nothing should be found wanting in the Pequod, after once fairly getting to sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 20. All Astir.
17  But one thing, nevertheless, that made me a little distrustful about receiving a generous share of the profits was this: Ashore, I had heard something of both Captain Peleg and his unaccountable old crony Bildad; how that they being the principal proprietors of the Pequod, therefore the other and more inconsiderable and scattered owners, left nearly the whole management of the ship's affairs to these two.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
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