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1  Now, with the subordinate phantoms, what wonder remained soon waned away; for in a whaler wonders soon wane.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 50. Ahab's Boat and Crew. Fedallah.
2  Now, with the subordinate phantoms, what wonder remained soon waned away; for in a whaler wonders soon wane.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 50. Ahab's Boat and Crew. Fedallah.
3  The tableau all waned at last with the pallidness aloft; and once more the Pequod and every soul on her decks were wrapped in a pall.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
4  I have sat before the dense coal fire and watched it all aglow, full of its tormented flaming life; and I have seen it wane at last, down, down, to dumbest dust.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 118. The Quadrant.
5  It had been next to impossible to dart these drugged-harpoons, were it not that as we advanced into the herd, our whale's way greatly diminished; moreover, that as we went still further and further from the circumference of commotion, the direful disorders seemed waning.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 87. The Grand Armada.
6  For, by this time, so spent was he by loss of blood, that he helplessly rolled away from the wreck he had made; lay panting on his side, impotently flapped with his stumped fin, then over and over slowly revolved like a waning world; turned up the white secrets of his belly; lay like a log, and died.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
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