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1  At intervals, it arched forth its vast archangel wings, as if to embrace some holy ark.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
2  "God bless ye, and have ye in His holy keeping, men," murmured old Bildad, almost incoherently.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
3  I had thought, now, that at your temperate North the generations were cold and holy as the hills.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
4  Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
5  He leaves all his deliverance to God, contenting himself with this, that spite of all his pains and pangs, he will still look towards His holy temple.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.
6  For even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious perquisites by the way.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 46. Surmises.
7  If Stubb even, who is but a peg higher than Flask, happens to have but a small appetite, and soon shows symptoms of concluding his repast, then Flask must bestir himself, he will not get more than three mouthfuls that day; for it is against holy usage for Stubb to precede Flask to the deck.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.