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1  The mist still spread over the sea, the empty lantern lay crushed in the bottom of the boat.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.
2  Carefully lowered from its height, the full-freighted vessel is caught by an appointed hand, and quickly emptied into a large tub.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets.
3  For, say they, when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.
4  With a wild whimsiness, he now used his coffin for a sea-chest; and emptying into it his canvas bag of clothes, set them in order there.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin.
5  For now the savage goes up to the empty fire-place, and removing the papered fire-board, sets up this little hunch-backed image, like a tenpin, between the andirons.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
6  And some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher, except to sell by the cartload, as they do hills about Boston, to fill up some morass in the Milky Way.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
7  And once Daggoo, seized with a sudden humor, assisted Dough-Boy's memory by snatching him up bodily, and thrusting his head into a great empty wooden trencher, while Tashtego, knife in hand, began laying out the circle preliminary to scalping him.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
8  He was a darkly-tanned, burly, good-natured, fine-looking man, of sixty or thereabouts, dressed in a spacious roundabout, that hung round him in festoons of blue pilot-cloth; and one empty arm of this jacket streamed behind him like the broidered arm of a hussar's surcoat.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.
9  Tierce after tierce, too, of water, and bread, and beef, and shooks of staves, and iron bundles of hoops, were hoisted out, till at last the piled decks were hard to get about; and the hollow hull echoed under foot, as if you were treading over empty catacombs, and reeled and rolled in the sea like an air-freighted demijohn.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 110. Queequeg in His Coffin.