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1  You've never had any of your own.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
2  You never made anything in your own sweat.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
3  I know that my own kind could not have believed it possible.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  He treated me vilely, cursed me continually, and heaped his own work upon me.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  I did my own work, and my own work only, and when and in what fashion I saw fit.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
6  They blocked their own efforts, while Wolf Larsen, with but a single purpose, achieved his.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  Callous as they were to my suffering, they were equally callous to their own when anything befell them.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  For three days I did my own work and Thomas Mugridge's too; and I flatter myself that I did his work well.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  Our own whistle was blowing hoarsely, and from time to time the sound of other whistles came to us from out of the fog.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
10  Whatever was to be done I must do for myself; and out of the courage of fear I evolved the plan of fighting Thomas Mugridge with his own weapons.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  I laughed bitterly to myself, and seemed to find in Wolf Larsen's forbidding philosophy a more adequate explanation of life than I found in my own.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  He grinned when I handed it over, yet it was a grin that contained more sincere thanks than a multitude of the verbosities of speech common to the members of my own class.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
13  I could imagine he was speaking the thoughts of his own mind as he read to me, and his voice, reverberating deeply and mournfully in the confined cabin, charmed and held me.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
14  Concerning his own rages, I am convinced that they are not real, that they are sometimes experiments, but that in the main they are the habits of a pose or attitude he has seen fit to take toward his fellow-men.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
15  I remember the scene impelled me to sudden laughter, and in the next instant I realized I was becoming hysterical myself; for these were women of my own kind, like my mother and sisters, with the fear of death upon them and unwilling to die.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
16  Three days of rest, three blessed days of rest, are what I had with Wolf Larsen, eating at the cabin table and doing nothing but discuss life, literature, and the universe, the while Thomas Mugridge fumed and raged and did my work as well as his own.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
17  And yet here you are, at the top of your life, where diminishing and dying begin, living an obscure and sordid existence, hunting sea animals for the satisfaction of woman's vanity and love of decoration, revelling in a piggishness, to use your own words, which is anything and everything except splendid.
The Sea-Wolf By Jack London
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
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