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1 The whale-ship is the true mother of that now mighty colony.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 24. The Advocate.
2 But thou art but my fiery father; my sweet mother, I know not.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
3 Floating on their sides, the mothers also seemed quietly eyeing us.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
4 No, I don't," said the captain, "but his mother did; he was born with it.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 100. Leg and Arm.
5 Twas a foolish, ignorant whim of his crazy, widowed mother, who died when he was only a twelvemonth old.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
6 Probably the mother during an important interval was sailing down the Peruvian coast, when earthquakes caused the beach to gape.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
7 Thou hast been where bell or diver never went; hast slept by many a sailor's side, where sleepless mothers would give their lives to lay them down.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 70. The Sphynx.
8 When by chance these precious parts in a nursing whale are cut by the hunter's lance, the mother's pouring milk and blood rivallingly discolour the sea for rods.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
9 For, suspended in those watery vaults, floated the forms of the nursing mothers of the whales, and those that by their enormous girth seemed shortly to become mothers.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
10 One way and another, it has begotten events so remarkable in themselves, and so continuously momentous in their sequential issues, that whaling may well be regarded as that Egyptian mother, who bore offspring themselves pregnant from her womb.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 24. The Advocate.