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1  There are no external chimneys; they open direct from the rear wall.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
2  I could only see part of the foot-board of the bed and a line of the wall, but nothing more.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
3  I went up in it to a bit of glass stuck against the wall, and I never saw such a sight in my life.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
4  The opposite wall of this entry was hung all over with a heathenish array of monstrous clubs and spears.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
5  Wall," said the landlord, fetching a long breath, "that's a purty long sarmon for a chap that rips a little now and then.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
6  We must watch for a breach in the living wall that hemmed us in; the wall that had only admitted us in order to shut us up.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
7  Thereby the weapon is instantly at hand to its hurler, who snatches it up as readily from its rest as a backwoodsman swings his rifle from the wall.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 63. The Crotch.
8  I then placed the first bench lengthwise along the only clear space against the wall, leaving a little interval between, for my back to settle down in.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
9  Wherefore, you must now have perceived that the front of the Sperm Whale's head is a dead, blind wall, without a single organ or tender prominence of any sort whatsoever.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 76. The Battering-Ram.
10  The Hindoo whale referred to, occurs in a separate department of the wall, depicting the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of leviathan, learnedly known as the Matse Avatar.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 55. Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales.
11  I was surprised to behold resting against the wall the wooden shaft of Queequeg's harpoon, which the landlady the evening previous had taken from him, before our mounting to the chamber.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
12  This savage was the only person present who seemed to notice my entrance; because he was the only one who could not read, and, therefore, was not reading those frigid inscriptions on the wall.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
13  The chaplain had not yet arrived; and there these silent islands of men and women sat steadfastly eyeing several marble tablets, with black borders, masoned into the wall on either side the pulpit.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
14  Stammering out something, I knew not what, I rolled away from him against the wall, and then conjured him, whoever or whatever he might be, to keep quiet, and let me get up and light the lamp again.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
15  At the middle of the forehead horizontally subdivide this upper quoin, and then you have two almost equal parts, which before were naturally divided by an internal wall of a thick tendinous substance.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun.
16  Between the marble cenotaphs on either hand of the pulpit, the wall which formed its back was adorned with a large painting representing a gallant ship beating against a terrible storm off a lee coast of black rocks and snowy breakers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
17  I was watching to see where he kept his razor, when lo and behold, he takes the harpoon from the bed corner, slips out the long wooden stock, unsheathes the head, whets it a little on his boot, and striding up to the bit of mirror against the wall, begins a vigorous scraping, or rather harpooning of his cheeks.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
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