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Moby Dick; Or, The Whale - Melville, Herman ยท 80 words
The Pequods whale being decapitated and the body stripped, the head was hoisted against the ships side about half way out of the sea, so that it might yet in great part be buoyed up by its native element. And there with the strained craft steeply leaning over to it, by reason of the enormous downward drag from the lower mast head, and every yard arm on that side projecting like a crane over the waves; there, that blood dripping.
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