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1  Their hands met; their eyes fastened; Starbuck's tears the glue.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 135. The Chase.—Third Day.
2  It is very fat and tender, and apt to tear in pieces in hoisting it on deck.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 75. The Right Whale's Head—Contrasted View.
3  From beneath his slouched hat Ahab dropped a tear into the sea; nor did all the Pacific contain such wealth as that one wee drop.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 132. The Symphony.
4  So Tamerlane's soldiers often argued with tears in their eyes, whether that invaluable life of his ought to be carried into the thickest of the fight.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 50. Ahab's Boat and Crew. Fedallah.
5  As for Peleg himself, he took it more like a philosopher; but for all his philosophy, there was a tear twinkling in his eye, when the lantern came too near.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 22. Merry Christmas.
6  Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 2. The Carpet-Bag.
7  They fancy that the monster to which these arms belonged ordinarily clings by them to the bed of the ocean; and that the sperm whale, unlike other species, is supplied with teeth in order to attack and tear it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 59. Squid.