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  • Besides, such is the breadth of the upper part of the front of his head, and such the tapering cut-water formation of the lower part, that by obliquely elevating his head, he thereby may be said to transform himself from a bluff-bowed sluggish galliot into a sharppointed New

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • For instance, we used to gather up a peck or so of large, sharppointed burrs and scatter them in the rabbit's furrow-like path.

    Indian Boyhood 1902

  • Besides, such is the breadth of the upper part of the front of his head, and such the tapering cut-water formation of the lower part, that by obliquely elevating his head, he thereby may be said to transform himself from a bluff-bowed sluggish galliot into a sharppointed New York pilot-boat.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

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