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1. With these flowers, my love, my thin boned waif,
2. the carrion eater, the waif taker, the shape shifter,
3. She was a shy and mousy waif of a girl
4. She did not look much like the forlorn and ragged waif the Merediths had found in the old Taylor barn
5. She looked so much like a waif with her thick
6. All except one, that is, a full portrait of her in a typical posture, almost waif like in appearance, sitting on a high backed chair with knees bent and legs to one side
7. “As for Dulyamil and I, my favorite hairbrush was stolen by a little elven waif only fourteen years old, and I chased her by foot and flight and Translocation all over the city
8. The face of this stranger waif reflected the opposite of every characteristic the countenance of the queen denoted
9. ’ They say ‘yes’ to every waif and stray that wants to make a few bucks and then it send home to his family
10. 'Was it a mortal's sword that felled you in your tent before the fight? Nay, it was a child of the dark, a waif of outer space, whose fingers were afire with the frozen coldness of the black gulfs, which froze the blood in your veins and the marrow of your thews
11. ‘hero’ will be a waif from the day of his birth,” he says
12. He was a desperate, starving, waif, alone in a free-fire zone with no one to look out
13. something besides a rejected waif living underneath the town
14. “The waif with the thing in her fist
15. other exceptional looking waif exit in style, saw a
16. As much as she hated needing the assistance, nearly swooning like some delicate waif, she was grateful for the prince’s quick thinking
17. He found her only a few yards away, a short, thin little waif, barely out of her mid-teens, with long blond hair pulled back into a ponytail by several golden clasps
18. Mark wandered after Enoch and the waif and went back into the main club
19. A blonde Swede brushed her teeth while studying the notices tacked to a decaying corkboard; a black backpacker with bright red braids kicked back reading a Lonely Planet guidebook; and a waif of a girl who looked like she couldn’t have been more than sixteen pecked out an e-mail at an aging computer terminal
20. I had become used to the barefoot waif with the disheveled hair and tattered clothing
21. Together (she is a poor waif, a child of shame, yours and mine and of all for a bare shilling and her luckpenny), together they hear the heavy tread of the watch as two raincaped shadows pass the new royal university
22. She went and stood by the waif and petted her head
23. Food!” wailed the waif on the rock
24. ‘Will was not a waif and stray
25. So passed away Sorrow the Undesired—that intrusive creature, that bastard gift of shameless Nature, who respects not the social law; a waif to whom eternal Time had been a matter of days merely, who knew not that such things as years and centuries ever were; to whom the cottage interior was the universe, the week's weather climate, new-born babyhood human existence, and the instinct to suck human knowledge
26. Only moments later, I was wearing a black dress and heels, and Harry had been transformed from a waif in baggy clothes to the smartly dressed boy prodigy that we knew him to be
27. The bulging stomach seemed a brutal thing for this poor waif of a girl to bear
28. As a waif or a souvenir
29. She looked suddenly like a costumed waif in her feathered finery, gazing up at the face of this bizarre and sardonic creature
30. Kerchak himself had no liking for the strange little waif, so he listened to Tublat, and, finally, with a shrug of his shoulders, turned back to the pile of leaves on which he had made his bed
31. No human mother could have shown more unselfish and sacrificing devotion than did this poor, wild brute for the little orphaned waif whom fate had thrown into her keeping
32. Could she be happy with this jungle waif? Could she find anything in common with a husband whose life had been spent in the tree tops of an African wilderness, frolicking and fighting with fierce anthropoids; tearing his food from the quivering flank of fresh-killed prey, sinking his strong teeth into raw flesh, and tearing away his portion while his mates growled and fought about him for their share?
33. So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then stretching it on a waif pole, handed it to Queequeg as the standard-bearer of this forlorn hope
34. The waif is a pennoned pole, two or three of which are carried by every boat; and which, when additional game is at hand, are inserted upright into the floating body of a dead whale, both to mark its place on the sea, and also as token of prior possession, should the boats of any other ship draw near
35. The allusion to the waif and waif-poles in the last chapter but one, necessitates some account of the laws and regulations of the whale fishery, of which the waif may be deemed the grand symbol and badge
36. What are the sinews and souls of Russian serfs and Republican slaves but Fast-Fish, whereof possession is the whole of the law? What to the rapacious landlord is the widow's last mite but a Fast-Fish? What is yonder undetected villain's marble mansion with a door-plate for a waif; what is that but a Fast-Fish? What is the ruinous discount which Mordecai, the broker, gets from poor Woebegone, the bankrupt, on a loan to keep Woebegone's family from starvation; what is that ruinous discount but a Fast-Fish? What is the Archbishop of Savesoul's income of L100,000 seized from the scant bread and cheese of hundreds of thousands of broken-backed laborers (all sure of heaven without any of Savesoul's help) what is that globular L100,000 but a Fast-Fish? What are the Duke of Dunder's hereditary towns and hamlets but Fast-Fish? What to that redoubted harpooneer, John Bull, is poor Ireland, but a Fast-Fish? What to that apostolic lancer, Brother Jonathan, is Texas but a Fast-Fish? And concerning all these, is not Possession the whole of the law?