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1  Not a napkin should he carry on his arm, but a buckler.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
2  The mate was in the very act of striking, when another hiss stayed his uplifted arm.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
3  A few minutes more, and he rose again, one arm still striking out, and with the other dragging a lifeless form.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
4  I stuffed a shirt or two into my old carpet-bag, tucked it under my arm, and started for Cape Horn and the Pacific.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
5  Upon waking next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg's arm thrown over me in the most loving and affectionate manner.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
6  But I got a dreaming and sprawling about one night, and somehow, Sam got pitched on the floor, and came near breaking his arm.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
7  And here was Flask now standing, Daggoo with one lifted arm furnishing him with a breastband to lean against and steady himself by.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
8  All at once the outstretched arm gave a peculiar motion and then remained fixed, while the boat's five oars were seen simultaneously peaked.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
9  My arm hung over the counterpane, and the nameless, unimaginable, silent form or phantom, to which the hand belonged, seemed closely seated by my bed-side.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
10  His bone leg steadied in that hole; one arm elevated, and holding by a shroud; Captain Ahab stood erect, looking straight out beyond the ship's ever-pitching prow.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
11  During the night, Radney had an unseamanlike way of sitting on the bulwarks of the quarter-deck, and leaning his arm upon the gunwale of the boat which was hoisted up there, a little above the ship's side.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
12  Now, take away the awful fear, and my sensations at feeling the supernatural hand in mine were very similar, in their strangeness, to those which I experienced on waking up and seeing Queequeg's pagan arm thrown round me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
13  Considering how sociably we had been sleeping together the night previous, and especially considering the affectionate arm I had found thrown over me upon waking in the morning, I thought this indifference of his very strange.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
14  So saying, with extended arm, he grasped the three level, radiating lances at their crossed centre; while so doing, suddenly and nervously twitched them; meanwhile, glancing intently from Starbuck to Stubb; from Stubb to Flask.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 36. The Quarter-Deck.
15  Indeed, partly lying on it as the arm did when I first awoke, I could hardly tell it from the quilt, they so blended their hues together; and it was only by the sense of weight and pressure that I could tell that Queequeg was hugging me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 4. The Counterpane.
16  Supper concluded, we received a lamp, and directions from Mrs. Hussey concerning the nearest way to bed; but, as Queequeg was about to precede me up the stairs, the lady reached forth her arm, and demanded his harpoon; she allowed no harpoon in her chambers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15. Chowder.
17  Once a vagabond on his own canal, I have received good turns from one of these Canallers; I thank him heartily; would fain be not ungrateful; but it is often one of the prime redeeming qualities of your man of violence, that at times he has as stiff an arm to back a poor stranger in a strait, as to plunder a wealthy one.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
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