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Arter that,Sal said it would not do.Come along here, I 'll give ye a glim in a jiffy;and so saying he lighted a candle and held it towards me,offering to lead the way. But I stood irresolute;when looking at a clock in the corner, he exclaimed I vum i
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Whether that mattress was stuffed with corn cobs or broken crockery,there is no telling, but I rolled about a good deal,and could not sleep for a long time. At last I slid off into a light doze,and had pretty nearly made a good offing towards the lan
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I am no coward,but what to make of this head peddling purple rascal altogether passed my comprehension. Ignorance is the parent of fear,and being completely nonplussed and confounded about the stranger, I confess I was now as much afraid of him as if
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he never moved his lips.All these strange antics were accompanied by still stranger guttural noises from the devotee, who seemed to be praying in a sing song or else singing some pagan psalmody or other,during which his face twitched about in the mos
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CHAPTER 4.The Counterpane. Upon waking next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg's arm thrown over me in the most loving and affectionate manner. You had almost thought I had been his wife.The counterpane was of patchwork, full of odd little part
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Instantly I felt a shock running through all my frame;nothing was to be seen,and nothing was to be heard; but a supernatural hand seemed placed in mine.My arm hung over the counterpane,and the nameless,unimaginable, silent form or phantom,to which th
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Thinks I,Queequeg,under the circumstances,this is a very civilized overture;but,the truth is, these savages have an innate sense of delicacy,say what you will;it is marvellous how essentially polite they are. I pay this particular compliment to Queeq
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These reflections just here are occasioned by the circumstance that after we were all seated at the table,and I was preparing to hear some good stories about whaling; to my no small surprise,nearly every man maintained a profound silence.And not only
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But New Bedford beats all Water Street and Wapping.In these last mentioned haunts you see only sailors; but in New Bedford,actual cannibals stand chatting at street corners;savages outright;many of whom yet carry on their bones unholy flesh.It makes
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In New Bedford,fathers,they say,give whales for dowers to their daughters,and portion off their nieces with a few porpoises a piece. You must go to New Bedford to see a brilliant wedding;for,they say,they have reservoirs of oil in every house,and eve
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SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF The late CAPTAIN EZEKIEL HARDY,Who in the bows of his boat was killed by a Sperm Whale on the coast of Japan,AUGUST 3d,1833.THIS TABLET Is erected to his Memory BY HIS WIDOW. Shaking off the sleet from my ice glazed hat and ja
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CHAPTER 8.The Pulpit. I had not been seated very long ere a man of a certain venerable robustness entered;immediately as the storm pelted door flew back upon admitting him, a quick regardful eyeing of him by all the congregation,sufficiently attested
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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. I pond
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CHAPTER 9.The Sermon. Father Mapple rose,and in a mild voice of unassuming authority ordered the scattered people to condense. Starboard gangway,there!side away to larboard larboard gangway to starboard!Midships!midships! There was a low rumbling of
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As sinful men,it is a lesson to us all,because it is a story of the sin,hard heartedness,suddenly awakened fears, the swift punishment,repentance,prayers,and finally the deliverance and joy of Jonah.As with all sinners among men, the sin of this son
