Herman Melville
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#grammar ⪢⪢
I'm not going to lose a day's sailing because of some barrels.
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and ⪢⪢
We looked last night and this morning but we couldn't find him.
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ask ⪢⪢
"And who are you?" I asked.
"I'm Elijah," he answered.
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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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chapel ⪢⪢
Almost every sailor visits the Whaleman's Chapel before sailing.
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doomed ⪢⪢
There's no turning back now but that ship is doomed.
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Elijah ⪢⪢
I turned around and asked, "But who are you?"
"I'm Elijah!" he said.
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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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from ⪢⪢
Its wood was dark from many years on the wild oceans.
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get ⪢⪢
"Get the whale! Bring the Pequod," shouted Captain Ahap.
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hard ⪢⪢
He had a hard face with lines on it from years of sun and wind.
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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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help ⪢⪢
Will you help us look for the boat, Captain?
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hold ⪢⪢
Haven't you seen the demons he keeps in the hold of the ship?
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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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Kokovoko ⪢⪢
He came from Kokovoco, a long way away in the Pacific Ocean.
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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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leave ⪢⪢
What did they leave behind them when they went on the whaling ships?
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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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oil ⪢⪢
When the oil was ready, we put it into barrels.
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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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onto ⪢⪢
Then they helped us onto the ship.
→ unto
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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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run ⪢⪢
And an ugly white line ran down from the top of his head.
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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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shoes ⪢⪢
Stubb took off his coat and shoes so he could swim.
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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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tomahawk ⪢⪢
"Who you?" cried the harpooner in a deep voice lifting his tomahawk.
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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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up ⪢⪢
Our sails were up and the wind carried the boat away.
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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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