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1  Yes, as every one knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
2  My father, in old Tolland county, cut down a pine tree once, and found a silver ring grown over in it; some old darkey's wedding ring.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
3  You must go to New Bedford to see a brilliant wedding; for, they say, they have reservoirs of oil in every house, and every night recklessly burn their lengths in spermaceti candles.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 6. The Street.
4  So that for better or for worse, we two, for the time, were wedded; and should poor Queequeg sink to rise no more, then both usage and honour demanded, that instead of cutting the cord, it should drag me down in his wake.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 72. The Monkey-Rope.
5  Well; when all the wedding guests were assembled at the bride's bamboo cottage, this Captain marches in, and being assigned the post of honour, placed himself over against the punchbowl, and between the High Priest and his majesty the King, Queequeg's father.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
6  The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl; and this punchbowl always forms the great central ornament on the braided mat where the feast is held.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.
7  Though, consumed with the hot fire of his purpose, Ahab in all his thoughts and actions ever had in view the ultimate capture of Moby Dick; though he seemed ready to sacrifice all mortal interests to that one passion; nevertheless it may have been that he was by nature and long habituation far too wedded to a fiery whaleman's ways, altogether to abandon the collateral prosecution of the voyage.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 46. Surmises.