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1  Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
2  No, thought I, there must be some sober reason for this thing; furthermore, it must symbolize something unseen.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
3  But at length all the past night's events soberly recurred, one by one, in fixed reality, and then I lay only alive to the comical predicament.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
4  But quitting all these unprofessional attempts, let us glance at those pictures of leviathan purporting to be sober, scientific delineations, by those who know.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
5  I observed, however, that one of them held somewhat aloof, and though he seemed desirous not to spoil the hilarity of his shipmates by his own sober face, yet upon the whole he refrained from making as much noise as the rest.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
6  However, the masts did not go overboard; and by and by we scrambled down, so sober, that we had to pass the flip again, though the savage salt spray bursting down the forecastle scuttle, rather too much diluted and pickled it to my taste.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.
7  His face was an exceedingly round but sober one; he was dressed in a faded blue woollen frock or shirt, and patched trowsers; and had thus far been dividing his attention between a marlingspike he held in one hand, and a pill-box held in the other, occasionally casting a critical glance at the ivory limbs of the two crippled captains.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.