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1 The unmanufactured sperm oil possesses a singularly cleansing virtue.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 98. Stowing Down and Clearing Up.
2 Because the Lord Warden is busily employed at times in fobbing his perquisites; which are his chiefly by virtue of that same fobbing of them.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 90. Heads or Tails.
3 It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 68. The Blanket.
4 Such large virtue lurks in these small things when extreme political superstitions invest them, that in some royal instances even to idiot imbecility they have imparted potency.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
5 On more accounts than one, a pity it is that the whale does not possess this prehensile virtue in his tail; for I have heard of yet another elephant, that when wounded in the fight, curved round his trunk and extracted the dart.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.
6 But in either case, the needle never again, of itself, recovers the original virtue thus marred or lost; and if the binnacle compasses be affected, the same fate reaches all the others that may be in the ship; even were the lowermost one inserted into the kelson.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 124. The Needle.
7 Instances where the lightning has actually struck the vessel, so as to smite down some of the spars and rigging, the effect upon the needle has at times been still more fatal; all its loadstone virtue being annihilated, so that the before magnetic steel was of no more use than an old wife's knitting needle.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 124. The Needle.
8 And whatever they may reveal of the divine love in the Son, the soft, curled, hermaphroditical Italian pictures, in which his idea has been most successfully embodied; these pictures, so destitute as they are of all brawniness, hint nothing of any power, but the mere negative, feminine one of submission and endurance, which on all hands it is conceded, form the peculiar practical virtues of his teachings.
Moby DickBy Herman Melville ContextHighlight In CHAPTER 86. The Tail.