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1. A smell of stale smoke hangs on the becalmed,
2. In Felix I sensed the businessman, I could tell he was in the habit of entering his problems in his mental search engine and waiting for a list of alternatives to come up but this time he didn't stand a chance because the wide blue was smiling as wide and as blue as only the wide blue can smile and the balmy air was becalming his twiddling and so he was forced to relax a little more, close his eyes and lay back
3. ” If I could have chosen between Chloe and the becalmed sea, it would have been an easy choice
4. Then he saved the water carefully, just as he’d done that time we were becalmed
5. A becalmed mind is
6. “The ship is proof against the fiercest storm, and is equipped with a mighty spell of Movement that will drive her for up to four days and nights, in case she is becalmed
7. Their greatest advantage is shown when conditions are absolutely becalmed, for the windmills can be disconnected from their gearing, allowing the water screws to be turned by manual labor or magic
8. [The ship hath been suddenly becalmed
9. She was becalmed in a magnificent adolescence, more and more impenetrable to formality, more and more indifferent to malice and suspicion, happy in her own world of simple realities
10. ” she said suddenly becalmed
11. The flame has gone out; the movement has stopped; the storm is becalmed and the person has died
12. They seemed like foreigners to colonial life – the leering nigger, and the haggard gutter rat – standing like a couple of becalmed masts
13. Once one of the boats was becalmed about a
14. And sir Leopold sat with them for he bore fast friendship to sir Simon and to this his son young Stephen and for that his languor becalmed him there after longest wanderings insomuch as they feasted him for that time in the honourablest manner
15. That was done when we were Iying becalmed off Odessa in the Black Sea under Captain Dalton
16. manhood, now lank, unstiffened, becalmed, and flapping against his thighs, down which it reached half way, terrible even in its fall, whilst under the dejection of spirit and flesh, which naturally followed his eyes, by turns, cast down towards his struck standard, or piteously lifted to Louisa, seemed to require at her hands what he had so sensibly parted from to her, and now ruefully missed
17. The legacy portfolio remains effectively becalmed
18. We were not far from the Mouth of the Gambia River, and the Weather had become almost unbearably hot and humid, when our Ship found itself suddenly becalm’d and Fog-bound and unable to proceed under Sail
19. “Kidd had a Ship like that—the fam’d Adventure Galley—and ’twas said she could do fourteen Knots under Sail, and three with Oars if she should be becalm’d
20. It was at lunch after a long morning of the Pequod becalmed
21. Moby Dick heaves in sight, as Ahab pounds across the deck and the men gather at the rail to stare at the great white wonder, and Queequeg, in this moment of delivery, cannot possibly return to his self-nailed coffin, as Ahab cries to the men to row, row, and row again, out of his silence, this stillness, this damned and becalmed sea
22. So I kept hammering away with the sailor falling from the mast, the sea becalmed, the arrival of the Whale, the almost-deaths of Queequeg and Ishmael, the lowering, the pursuit, the harpooning, the roping of Ahab to the Beast, the plunge, the death, and Ahab arisen, dead, beckoning from the side of the Whale for his men to follow, follow
23. I mention this circumstance, because, as if the cows and calves had been purposely locked up in this innermost fold; and as if the wide extent of the herd had hitherto prevented them from learning the precise cause of its stopping; or, possibly, being so young, unsophisticated, and every way innocent and inexperienced; however it may have been, these smaller whales—now and then visiting our becalmed boat from the margin of the lake—evinced a wondrous fearlessness and confidence, or else a still becharmed panic which it was impossible not to marvel at
24. But to render this acuteness at all successful in the end, the wind and the sea must be the whaleman's allies; for of what present avail to the becalmed or windbound mariner is the skill that assures him he is exactly ninety-three leagues and a quarter from his port? Inferable from these statements, are many collateral subtile matters touching the chase of whales