Nor is It at All Prudent for The Hunter to be Over
Nor is It at All Prudent for The Hunter to be Over

Nor is it at all prudent for the hunter to be over curious touching the precise nature of the whale spout. It will not do for him to be peering into it, and putting his face in it. You cannot go with your pitcher to this fountain and fill it, and bring it away. For even when coming into slight conta...

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11Mar2013

But The Suddenly Started Pequod
But The Suddenly Started Pequod

"Not forged!" and snatching Perth's levelled iron from the crotch, Ahab held it out, exclaiming—"Look ye, Nantucketer; here in this hand I hold his death! Tempered in blood, and tempered by lightning are these barbs; and I swear to temper them triply in that hot place behind the fin, ...

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28Feb2013

What is It That in The Albino Man so Peculiarly
What is It That in The Albino Man so Peculiarly

But how had the mystic thing been caught? Whisper it not, and I will tell; with a treacherous hook and line, as the fowl floated on the sea. At last the Captain made a postman of it; tying a lettered, leathern tally round its neck, with the ship's time and place; and then letting it escape. But I do...

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27Feb2013

The Other Plan Must be Carried Out
The Other Plan Must be Carried Out

The time seemed long; the guide ever and anon left them to take an observation on the edge of the wood, but the guards watched steadily by the glare of the torches, and a dim light crept through the windows of the pagoda.They waited till midnight; but no change took place among the guards, and it be...

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20Feb2013

Lazarus Lived after His Resurrection
Lazarus Lived after His Resurrection

Here then, from three impartial witnesses, I had a deliberate statement of the entire case. Considering, therefore, that squalls and capsizings in the water and consequent bivouacks on the deep, were matters of common occurrence in this kind of life; considering that at the superlatively critical in...

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14Feb2013

Forthwith Flashes of Actual Flame
Forthwith Flashes of Actual Flame

Flutter, flutter, went the flag, first to the right, then to the left. It was too far for me to recognise anyone there, but afterwards I learned that Ogilvy, Stent, and Henderson were with others in this attempt at communication. This little group had in its advance dragged inward, so to speak, th...

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31Jan2013

The Fact that Barsoomian Architecture is Extremely Ornate
The Fact that Barsoomian Architecture is Extremely Ornate

It was a long climb up the face of the building, and one fraught with much danger, but there was no other way, and so I essayed the task. The fact that Barsoomian architecture is extremely ornate made the feat much simpler than I had anticipated, since I found ornamental ledges and projections which...

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25Jan2013

Dire and Thus Wolf Much Outdid Fruitful and Jeez
Dire and Thus Wolf Much Outdid Fruitful and Jeez

Far however compulsively so jeepers upon including barring execrably outside ritual lorikeet goodness stopped warthog that forward ground some measurably far jeepers hello tuneful far the onto that eerily but supp far above and less man-of-war lusty dear lugubrious well across like much goodness mor...

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16Jan2013
 
 
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