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1  In his own proper turn, each officer waited to be served.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
2  Sure it is, nevertheless, that the Sperm Whale has no proper olfactories.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
3  But this custom has now become obsolete; turn we then to the one proper mast-head, that of a whale-ship at sea.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
4  And besides, when a man is elevated in that odd fashion, he has no proper foundation for his superior altitude.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 53. The Gam.
5  A short-handled sharp spade being sent up to him, he diligently searches for the proper place to begin breaking into the Tun.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 78. Cistern and Buckets.
6  It is then they change places; and the headsman, the chief officer of the little craft, takes his proper station in the bows of the boat.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 62. The Dart.
7  But if from the comparative dimensions of the whale's proper brain, you deem it incapable of being adequately charted, then I have another idea for you.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
8  Interweaving in its proper place this darker thread with the story as publicly narrated on the ship, the whole of this strange affair I now proceed to put on lasting record.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
9  These are hieroglyphical; that is, if you call those mysterious cyphers on the walls of pyramids hieroglyphics, then that is the proper word to use in the present connexion.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 68. The Blanket.
10  Nevertheless, in the proper place we shall see that no knowing fisherman will ever turn up his nose at such a whale as this, however much he may shun blasted whales in general.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
11  So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford stuff for a good joke to anybody, let him not be backward, but let him cheerfully allow himself to spend and be spent in that way.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 5. Breakfast.
12  Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11. Nightgown.
13  If you attentively regard almost any quadruped's spine, you will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebrae to a strung necklace of dwarfed skulls, all bearing rudimental resemblance to the skull proper.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
14  In most American whalemen the mast-heads are manned almost simultaneously with the vessel's leaving her port; even though she may have fifteen thousand miles, and more, to sail ere reaching her proper cruising ground.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
15  For you see no one point precisely; not one distinct feature is revealed; no nose, eyes, ears, or mouth; no face; he has none, proper; nothing but that one broad firmament of a forehead, pleated with riddles; dumbly lowering with the doom of boats, and ships, and men.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 79. The Prairie.
16  Some centuries ago, when the Sperm whale was almost wholly unknown in his own proper individuality, and when his oil was only accidentally obtained from the stranded fish; in those days spermaceti, it would seem, was popularly supposed to be derived from a creature identical with the one then known in England as the Greenland or Right Whale.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
17  That same infinitely thin, isinglass substance, which, I admit, invests the entire body of the whale, is not so much to be regarded as the skin of the creature, as the skin of the skin, so to speak; for it were simply ridiculous to say, that the proper skin of the tremendous whale is thinner and more tender than the skin of a new-born child.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 68. The Blanket.
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