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1  But what further depreciates the whale as a civilized dish, is his exceeding richness.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
2  The milk is very sweet and rich; it has been tasted by man; it might do well with strawberries.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
3  For this reason a sleeping apartment should never be furnished with a fire, which is one of the luxurious discomforts of the rich.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 11. Nightgown.
4  As its name imports, it is of an exceedingly rich, mottled tint, with a bestreaked snowy and golden ground, dotted with spots of the deepest crimson and purple.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand.
5  Dropping his spade, he thrust both hands in, and drew out handfuls of something that looked like ripe Windsor soap, or rich mottled old cheese; very unctuous and savory withal.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud.
6  But the spermaceti itself, how bland and creamy that is; like the transparent, half-jellied, white meat of a cocoanut in the third month of its growth, yet far too rich to supply a substitute for butter.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 65. The Whale as a Dish.
7  I know not with what fine and costly material the Heidelburgh Tun was coated within, but in superlative richness that coating could not possibly have compared with the silken pearl-coloured membrane, like the lining of a fine pelisse, forming the inner surface of the Sperm Whale's case.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun.
8  Here palms, alpacas, and volcanoes; sun's disks and stars; ecliptics, horns-of-plenty, and rich banners waving, are in luxuriant profusion stamped; so that the precious gold seems almost to derive an added preciousness and enhancing glories, by passing through those fancy mints, so Spanishly poetic.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.