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1 It became imperative to lance the flying whale, or be content to lose him.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 84. Pitchpoling.
2 Nor did they lose much hereby; in the cabin was no companionship; socially, Ahab was inaccessible.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
3 We can't afford to lose whales by the likes of you; a whale would sell for thirty times what you would, Pip, in Alabama.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 93. The Castaway.
4 But there are other instances where this whiteness loses all that accessory and strange glory which invests it in the White Steed and Albatross.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.
5 Yes, I have heard something curious on that score, sir; how that a dismasted man never entirely loses the feeling of his old spar, but it will be still pricking him at times.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 108. Ahab and the Carpenter.
6 No resolution could withstand it; in that dreamy mood losing all consciousness, at last my soul went out of my body; though my body still continued to sway as a pendulum will, long after the power which first moved it is withdrawn.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale.
7 In length, the Sperm Whale's skeleton at Tranque measured seventy-two Feet; so that when fully invested and extended in life, he must have been ninety feet long; for in the whale, the skeleton loses about one fifth in length compared with the living body.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
8 Second: To the native Indian of Peru, the continual sight of the snowhowdahed Andes conveys naught of dread, except, perhaps, in the mere fancying of the eternal frosted desolateness reigning at such vast altitudes, and the natural conceit of what a fearfulness it would be to lose oneself in such inhuman solitudes.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 42. The Whiteness of The Whale.