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1  Folding back the counterpane, I stooped over the bed.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
2  "All 'dention," said Fleece, again stooping over upon his tongs in the desired position.'
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
3  If you stooped over too far forward, you risked their pitching out of you like billiard-balls.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 101. The Decanter.
4  Now and then he stooped to pick up a patch, or save an end of tarred twine, which otherwise might have been wasted.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 18. His Mark.
5  At one end a ruminating tar was still further adorning it with his jack-knife, stooping over and diligently working away at the space between his legs.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
6  Ahab stooped to clear it; he did clear it; but the flying turn caught him round the neck, and voicelessly as Turkish mutes bowstring their victim, he was shot out of the boat, ere the crew knew he was gone.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
7  For I was not prepared to see Father Mapple after gaining the height, slowly turn round, and stooping over the pulpit, deliberately drag up the ladder step by step, till the whole was deposited within, leaving him impregnable in his little Quebec.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 8. The Pulpit.
8  Whereupon planting his feet firmly against two opposite planks of the boat, the gigantic negro, stooping a little, presented his flat palm to Flask's foot, and then putting Flask's hand on his hearse-plumed head and bidding him spring as he himself should toss, with one dexterous fling landed the little man high and dry on his shoulders.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 48. The First Lowering.