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1  Away, cook, and deliver my message.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
2  Drop your tongs, cook, and hear my orders.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
3  As for the ends of the flukes, have them soused, cook.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
4  No, you didn't, cook; but I'll tell you what I'm coming to, cook.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
5  "Bress my soul, if I cook noder one," he growled, angrily, turning round to depart.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
6  Only the most unprejudiced of men like Stubb, nowadays partake of cooked whales; but the Esquimaux are not so fastidious.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
7  The Turks use it in cooking, and also carry it to Mecca, for the same purpose that frankincense is carried to St. Peter's in Rome.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 92. Ambergris.
8  His jets are erect, full, and black like soot; so that from so abounding a smoke in the chimney, you would think there must be a brave supper cooking in the great bowels below.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and ...
9  But, perhaps you expect to get into heaven by crawling through the lubber's hole, cook; but, no, no, cook, you don't get there, except you go the regular way, round by the rigging.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
10  About midnight that steak was cut and cooked; and lighted by two lanterns of sperm oil, Stubb stoutly stood up to his spermaceti supper at the capstan-head, as if that capstan were a sideboard.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
11  Also, that in Henry VIIIth's time, a certain cook of the court obtained a handsome reward for inventing an admirable sauce to be eaten with barbacued porpoises, which, you remember, are a species of whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
12  It was after a great feast given by his father the king, on the gaining of a great battle wherein fifty of the enemy had been killed by about two o'clock in the afternoon, and all cooked and eaten that very evening.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 17. The Ramadan.
13  But all in all, taking her from truck to helm, considering the dimensions of the cook's boilers, including his own live parchment boilers; fore and aft, I say, the Samuel Enderby was a jolly ship; of good fare and plenty; fine flip and strong; crack fellows all, and capital from boot heels to hat-band.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.