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1  When this last task was accomplished it was noon, and the seamen went below to their dinner.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
2  To accomplish his object Ahab must use tools; and of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are most apt to get out of order.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 46. Surmises.
3  But while now upon so wide a field thus variously accomplished and with such liveliness of expertness in him, too; all this would seem to argue some uncommon vivacity of intelligence.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 107. The Carpenter.
4  For with the charts of all four oceans before him, Ahab was threading a maze of currents and eddies, with a view to the more certain accomplishment of that monomaniac thought of his soul.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 44. The Chart.
5  And thus, through the courage and great skill in obstetrics of Queequeg, the deliverance, or rather, delivery of Tashtego, was successfully accomplished, in the teeth, too, of the most untoward and apparently hopeless impediments; which is a lesson by no means to be forgotten.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets.
6  Whereupon, this accomplished swordsman, warning all hands to stand off, once more makes a scientific dash at the mass, and with a few sidelong, desperate, lunging slicings, severs it completely in twain; so that while the short lower part is still fast, the long upper strip, called a blanket-piece, swings clear, and is all ready for lowering.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 67. Cutting In.
7  And where Ahab's chances of accomplishing his object have hitherto been spoken of, allusion has only been made to whatever way-side, antecedent, extra prospects were his, ere a particular set time or place were attained, when all possibilities would become probabilities, and, as Ahab fondly thought, every possibility the next thing to a certainty.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 44. The Chart.