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1 The shavings flew right and left; till at last the plane-iron came bump against an indestructible knot.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
2 This was an easy thing, for the carpenter had been thrusting his shavings into the furnace throughout the passage.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
3 So gathering up the shavings with another grin, and throwing them into the great stove in the middle of the room, he went about his business, and left me in a brown study.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
4 A lost land-bird of strange plumage strays on board, and is made a captive: out of clean shaved rods of right-whale bone, and cross-beams of sperm whale ivory, the carpenter makes a pagoda-looking cage for it.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 107. The Carpenter.
5 First he takes about a double handful of shavings out of his grego pocket, and places them carefully before the idol; then laying a bit of ship biscuit on top and applying the flame from the lamp, he kindled the shavings into a sacrificial blaze.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
6 Whether it was, too, that his head being shaved, his forehead was drawn out in freer and brighter relief, and looked more expansive than it otherwise would, this I will not venture to decide; but certain it was his head was phrenologically an excellent one.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
7 So I kindled the shavings; helped prop up the innocent little idol; offered him burnt biscuit with Queequeg; salamed before him twice or thrice; kissed his nose; and that done, we undressed and went to bed, at peace with our own consciences and all the world.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.