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Sentence count:84Posted:2017-08-01Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: englishmanmaelstromfreshmanmarshmallowcash machinenourishmentfishmongerpunishmentMeaning: n. 1. (Old Testament) the son of Abraham who was cast out after the birth of Isaac; considered the forebear of 12 Arabian tribes 2. a person who is rejected (from society or home). 
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1. Indeed, Ishmael was a witness to one such occasion.
2. Ishmael ponders the brow of the sperm whale.
3. Mr Coffin urges Ishmael to get into the bed.
4. Ishmael passes the night sleeping soundly.
5. Ishmael concludes the stranger is a humbug.
6. Ishmael and Queequeg become fast friends.
7. Ishmael, however, welcomes the comradeship of all human beings.
8. What a doleful and mocking funeral, Ishmael muses.
9. This suggests to Ishmael that the entire universe is more closely interrelated than man has yet admitted.
10. Initially, Ishmael is completely optimistic about this endless journey, affirming both the motion and the endless uncertainty associated with it.
11. There are some parts of the whale Ishmael can Stomach, but these are rare.
12. Ishmael signs up for the voyage and volunteers to bring Queequeg.
13. Ishmael, worried for fear some evil has befallen Queequeg, rushes to the landlady and asks for a key.
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14. Ishmael now argues with himself about the biblical story of Jonah being swallowed by the whale.
15. Fourth, Ishmael makes it clear that an enraged sperm whale will charge and sink a large sailing vessel like the Pequod.
16. Ishmael says they are whales because they spout and have horizontal tails.
17. Again and again, Ishmael is faced with the impossibility of successfully completing his task.
18. Up to this point Ishmael has told us a good deal about the great sperm whale.
19. Ishmael recalls boarding an Enderby ship with pleasure because of its fine provisions.
20. Finally Ishmael starts shouting at Queequeg and nudging him and finally awakes the big man.
21. Ishmael demands that Queequeg put away his pipe and tomahawk and Queequeg does.
22. Ishmael is firmly committed to this experience, but here he exhorts against it.
23. Ishmael then enters the public room and asks the proprietor, Peter Coffin, for a bed.
24. For though neither empiricism nor idealism are satisfactory in themselves, Ishmael does make use of both.
25. If we can draw a conclusion here it would be simply that Ishmael went to sea to find his place among men.
26. QueequegOne of the harpooners who forms a friendship with Ishmael.
27. Queequeg is seen to be more delicate and civilized than most of the Christians that Ishmael has known.
28. The tail of the whale is a thing of beauty, grace and enormous power, Ishmael says.
29. When Rose was pregnant, Steve threatened to call the poor child after the book's narrator, Ishmael!
30. Melville has combined these basic elements together very conveniently with the literary device of Ishmael, the narrator.
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