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I found Queequeg's arm thrown over me in the most loving and affectionate manner. Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 4: The Counterpane)
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Even as it was, I thought something of slipping out of the window, but it was the second floor back Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 3: The Spouter-Inn)
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Ishmael probably has some experience climbing out of windows, hence the detail “second floor back”–were it the second floor front he might have been able to scamper down a front porch overhang.

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I would have bolted out of it quicker than ever I bolted a dinner. Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 3: The Spouter-Inn)
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Hard to imagine anyone taking longer to get from a bed to the bedroom door than it takes them to eat a dinner…but okay.

Ismael is no Sonya Thomas, after all.

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a man can be honest in any sort of skin. Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 3: The Spouter-Inn)
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Moby Dick predates Silence of the Lambs

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Not relevant.

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spliced Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 3: The Spouter-Inn)
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Married

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Splicing is a technique still frequently used on boats for weaving two lines together. So yes, the inn-keeper means married, but he’s also using nautical terminology.

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At any rate, I made up my mind that if it so turned out that we should sleep together, he must undress and get into bed before I did. Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 3: The Spouter-Inn)
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Perfect plan Ish! No way the huge cannibal man can hurt you if he gets into bed first.

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Fill to THIS mark, and your charge is but a penny; to THIS a penny more; and so on to the full glass Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 3: The Spouter-Inn)
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An old-fashioned Solo cup

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Jonah Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 3: The Spouter-Inn)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah

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A prophet in the Bible who was swallowed by a whale. Did I say he was swallowed by a WHALE?

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Should explain who Jonah is rather than pawn off responsibility to Wikipedia

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Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 2: The Carpet-Bag)
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says an old writer—of whose works I possess the only copy extant Herman Melville – Moby-Dick (Chap. 2: The Carpet-Bag)
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