Herman Melville
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and ⪢⪢
We looked last night and this morning but we couldn't find him.
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away ⪢⪢
But we put his coffin away, down with the barrels of oil, and went to work.
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cannibal ⪢⪢
He's sold the other four already and now he's trying to sell the fifth. Maybe he's a cannibal. I don't know but he pays on time and that's all I care about.
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Flask ⪢⪢
Flask, a short robust young man from Martha's Vineyard, was _____ third mate.
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from ⪢⪢
There were harpoons in his body from his many fights with whalers.
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He is out there in the ocean. ⪢⪢
But he is here too in my dreams, always in my dreams. He will never leave me. He is whiter than the first beautiful snow in winter, whiter than the stars in the sky on a warm summer's night.
But he brings only death.
He is Moby Dick.
#quote
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hope ⪢⪢
I _____ , for you and for your men, that you never find Moby Dick.
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I'll ⪢⪢
Don't leave this boat or _____ throw a harpoon at you.
#bookmark
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leave ⪢⪢
I married my dear wife and the next day I left on a whaling ship for three years.
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livelihood ⪢⪢
So when a ship like the Pequod went off to sea, the voyage had to be a success because the livelihood of many people depended on it.
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New Bedford ⪢⪢
I put a shirt or two into my bag and left for New Bedford, Massachusets - that's where you go to find a whaling ship.
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off ⪢⪢
We couldn't cut the fat off four whales in one day so we had to watch them that night.
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on ⪢⪢
He closed his mouth on Captain Ahsb's boat and took it out of the water.
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Pequod ⪢⪢
Flask suddenly shouted, "The ship! Moby Dick's going to hit the Pequod!"
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pull ⪢⪢
The water pulled the whaling boat with all the men under the water.
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shine ⪢⪢
When he came up out of the water, his great white body shone in the morning sun. Birds followed him and flew above him. Captain Ahap's face shone too. He was a child again.
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squire ⪢⪢
If Ahab had been a medieval king, they would have been his knights and the harpooners would have been his squires.
#conditional ◁→◁
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Starbuck ⪢⪢
Starbuck was a young man. When you saw his black clothes and sad face, you could forget that.
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Starbucks ⪢⪢
The multi-billion-dollar corporation got its name from the book, Moby Dick. The coffee chain was inspired by the name of the whaling ship's first mate Starbuck.
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trip ⪢⪢
Stubb put Pip in our boat on the next whaling trip because there was no other man.
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will ⪢⪢
Then I'll die when I go home. They'll put a rope around me and kill me there. #bookmark
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with ⪢⪢
He walked with the harpoon to the men and sat down on a barrel.
#bookmark
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