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1  Yes, Ishmael, the same fate may be thine.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
2  While now the fated Pequod had been so long afloat this voyage, the log and line had but very seldom been in use.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 125. The Log and Line.
3  But the bodings of the crew were destined to receive a most plausible confirmation in the fate of one of their number that morning.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 126. The Life-Buoy.
4  And to the importunity of their persisted questionings he had finally given in; and so it came to pass that every one now knew the shameful story of his wretched fate.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 112. The Blacksmith.
5  Ship and boat diverged; the cold, damp night breeze blew between; a screaming gull flew overhead; the two hulls wildly rolled; we gave three heavy-hearted cheers, and blindly plunged like fate into the lone Atlantic.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
6  It needs scarcely to be told, with what feelings, on the eve of a Nantucket voyage, I regarded those marble tablets, and by the murky light of that darkened, doleful day read the fate of the whalemen who had gone before me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
7  Clinging to a spar with one hand, some reached forth the other with impatient wavings; others, shading their eyes from the vivid sunlight, sat far out on the rocking yards; all the spars in full bearing of mortals, ready and ripe for their fate.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 134. The Chase—Second Day.
8  But in either case, the needle never again, of itself, recovers the original virtue thus marred or lost; and if the binnacle compasses be affected, the same fate reaches all the others that may be in the ship; even were the lowermost one inserted into the kelson.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 124. The Needle.