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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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31. Queequeg decides to smoke his tomahawk pipe and they visit, Queequeg telling Ishmael about himself and the island he came from.
32. When Ishmael decides to visit the chapel, the weather has suddenly turned cold and bleak and snowing.
33. It is dark when Queequeg and Ishmael land in Nantucket.
34. Ishmael suggests that various primitive tribes and various religions have always looked upon the sea as something mysterious and deep.
35. Ishmael is the only Person aboard the Pequod who never contents himself with seeing only one meaning for anything.
36. The focus is shifted momentarily from the crew to whales as Ishmael describes the various types.
37. Nantucket is a small, barren, sandy place where, Ishmael tells us, they have to plant weeds.
38. Ishmael the character is an objectified self, a projection of the self image and frame of mind of the narrator hero.
39. Moving on, Ishmael comes to a dim sort of light near the docks.
40. So, Ishmael argues, if you really wish to know what a great whale looks like you should go whaling.
41. Because, Ishmael says, all men have their moments of greatness.
42. Abraham once told me that Ishmael would be the beginning of a nation - now I believe him.
43. Her meagre supply of water runs out(sentence dictionary), and she puts Ishmael in the shade of a bush to die.
44. Mrs Hussey goes upstairs with Ishmael and peering through the keyhole sees the harpoon.
45. Ishmael, consequently, also investigates the antithetical approach, the method of pure subjective perception.
46. Ishmael, the narrator of the story, tells the reader why he went to sea.
47. The ambivalence with which Ishmael reacts to both society and human brotherhood is his dominant characteristic.
48. There are some, Ishmael tells us, who, like Stubb, find whale meat a great delicacy.
49. Furthermore, Ishmael is alive because he alone did not assign specific meanings to events.
50. Ishmael is still not satisfied that he has bestowed enough dignity on the profession of whaling.
51. He gets out of bed, offers to dress first, then leave, before Ishmael gets up.
52. Rebekah's scheming is as cruel and as ruthless as Sarah's treatment of Hagar and Ishmael.
53. Ishmael is constantly aware of the difficulties involved, but he insists upon the necessity of the attempt.
54. The sperm whale at Tranque, Ishmael says, was about right for a large-sized whale of this type.
55. However, in this first chapter, Ishmael suggests various reasons why he goes to the sea.
56. It is as though Melville finds Ishmael a nuisance.
57. The sons of Abraham were Isaac and Ishmael.
58. The sons of Abraham ; Isaac[sentencedict.com], and Ishmael.
59. The sons of abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.
60. After the ship sinks, Ishmael is saved by the engraved coffin made by his close friend, the heroic tattooed harpooner and Polynesian prince Queequeg.
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