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- proper noun Alternative spelling of
Moby-Dick .
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Examples
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'Bible,' as I call it -- a copy of 'Moby Dick' -- I brought away.
The Red Redmaynes Eden Phillpotts 1911
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His Moby Dick is a chubby flasher who has mall customers and employees alike terrified he'll open his trenchcoat for them.
California Chronicle 2009
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While I entered most any contest I came across (I'm still waiting on that free second-generation iPod), the contest that came to be my Moby Dick was the HGTV Dream House sweepstakes.
[redacted] 2009
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Moby-Dick: Polyphony: Learn how Biblical references and imagery are used in popular literature of the 20th century, namely Moby Dick, in this lecture.
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And here's the link if you want to buy the book at Amazon; Andy is my colleague at Columbia, I've got the book and it looks excellent and I am feeling rather remorseful for not having read it yet, but I think it is going to have to wait a while & then I will read it and use it as a prompt to reread Moby Dick, which is a novel I loved when I read it I was like How come nobody told me to read this book before?
An interesting literary interview Jenny Davidson 2006
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Although the strip only ran for 6 weeks, Caprioli had proven himself a fine illustrator of sea-faring sagas and was immediately offered another, adapting 'Moby Dick' from the novel by Herman Melville.
Archive 2010-04-01 Steve 2010
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Although the strip only ran for 6 weeks, Caprioli had proven himself a fine illustrator of sea-faring sagas and was immediately offered another, adapting 'Moby Dick' from the novel by Herman Melville.
Franco Caprioli: Introducing The Argonauts Steve 2010
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If it takes a Kindle for my college son to read " Moby Dick, " then I say launch the boats!
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In the book's impressive chapter on Melville and "Moby Dick," the authors argue that the wildly changeable tones and shifts of subject matter in the novel are a key to its meaning.
The Gods Return Eric Ormsby 2010
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Boston.com's choice of "Moby Dick" at number one is all right by me.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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