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1  Yes, the long calm was departing.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
2  That lively cry upon this deadly calm might almost convert a better man.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
3  In as calm, but rapid a manner as possible, I gave her to understand the whole case.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
4  Yes, we were now in that enchanted calm which they say lurks at the heart of every commotion.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
5  At first they are overawing; their calm self-collectedness of simplicity seems a Socratic wisdom.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
6  It was a calm; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow business of towing the trophy to the Pequod.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
7  It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx's in the desert.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
8  An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
9  So seated like Ontario Indians on the gunwales of the boats, we swiftly but silently paddled along; the calm not admitting of the noiseless sails being set.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
10  But calm, snow-white, and unvarying; still directing its fountain of feathers to the sky; still beckoning us on from before, the solitary jet would at times be descried.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
11  By this time the faint air had become a complete calm; so that whether or no, the Pequod was now fairly entrapped in the smell, with no hope of escaping except by its breezing up again.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
12  A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor valiant; taking perils as they came with an indifferent air; and while engaged in the most imminent crisis of the chase, toiling away, calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged for the year.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 27. Knights and Squires.
13  But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
14  It is a quiet noon-scene among the isles of the Pacific; a French whaler anchored, inshore, in a calm, and lazily taking water on board; the loosened sails of the ship, and the long leaves of the palms in the background, both drooping together in the breezeless air.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and ...
15  When the sea is moderately calm, and slightly marked with spherical ripples, and this gnomon-like fin stands up and casts shadows upon the wrinkled surface, it may well be supposed that the watery circle surrounding it somewhat resembles a dial, with its style and wavy hour-lines graved on it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
16  The English ship Pusie Hall can tell a story on that head; and, as for his strength, let me say, that there have been examples where the lines attached to a running sperm whale have, in a calm, been transferred to the ship, and secured there; the whale towing her great hull through the water, as a horse walks off with a cart.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 45. The Affidavit.
17  But one transparent blue morning, when a stillness almost preternatural spread over the sea, however unattended with any stagnant calm; when the long burnished sun-glade on the waters seemed a golden finger laid across them, enjoining some secrecy; when the slippered waves whispered together as they softly ran on; in this profound hush of the visible sphere a strange spectre was seen by Daggoo from the main-mast-head.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 59. Squid.
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