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  • Ahab's full lunacy subsided not, but deepeningly contracted; like the unabated Hudson, when that noble

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Ahab's full lunacy subsided not, but deepeningly contracted; like the unabated Hudson, when that noble Northman flows narrowly, but unfathomably through the

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • Ahab's full lunacy subsided not, but deepeningly contracted; like the unabated Hudson, when that noble Northman flows narrowly, but unfathomably through the Highland gorge.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

  • Relying heavily on Sabin Willet's deepeningly influential article, Judge Kaplan makes a distinction -- notably, one that Judge Posner did not make -- between delaying the inevitable (i.e., delaying liquidation) and delaying a save opportunity (i.e., delaying reorganization).

    Bankruptcy Litigation Blog 2008

  • Ahab’s full lunacy subsided not, but deepeningly contracted; like the unabated Hudson, when that noble Northman flows narrowly, but unfathomably through the Highland gorge.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

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