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a
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
account
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From this reading This boat had always been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the captain’s, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter.
always
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From this reading This boat had always been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the captain’s, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter.
and
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
bands
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
been
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From this reading This boat had always been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the captain’s, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter.
black
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From this reading A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black trowsers of the same dark stuff.
boat
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
boats
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From this reading This boat had always been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the captain’s, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter.
bows
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From this reading The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.
braided
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From this reading But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.
But
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From this reading But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.
by
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From this reading The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.
called
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From this reading This boat had always been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the captain’s, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter.
captain's
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From this reading This boat had always been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the captain’s, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter.
casting
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
celerity
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
Chinese
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From this reading A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black trowsers of the same dark stuff.
coiled
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From this reading But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.
cotton
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From this reading A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black trowsers of the same dark stuff.
crowning
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From this reading But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.
dark
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From this reading A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black trowsers of the same dark stuff.
deck
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
deemed
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From this reading This boat had always been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the captain’s, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter.
ebonness
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From this reading But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.
evilly
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From this reading The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.
figure
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From this reading The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.
flitting
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
for
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
from
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From this reading This boat had always been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the captain’s, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter.
funereally
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From this reading A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black trowsers of the same dark stuff.
glistening
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From this reading But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.
had
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From this reading This boat had always been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the captain’s, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter.
hair
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From this reading But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.
hanging
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From this reading This boat had always been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the captain’s, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter.
head
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From this reading But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.
him
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From this reading A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black trowsers of the same dark stuff.
his
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From this reading But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.
invested
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From this reading A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black trowsers of the same dark stuff.
its
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From this reading This boat had always been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the captain’s, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter.
jacket
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From this reading A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black trowsers of the same dark stuff.
lips
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From this reading The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.
living
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From this reading But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.
loose
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
noiseless
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
now
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From this reading The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.
of
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
on
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
one
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From this reading This boat had always been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the captain’s, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter.
other
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
phantoms
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
plaited
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From this reading But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.
protruding
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From this reading The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.
quarter
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From this reading This boat had always been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the captain’s, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter.
round
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From this reading But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.
rumpled
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From this reading A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black trowsers of the same dark stuff.
sameadjectiveUS /seɪm/
Identical; not different.
From this reading A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black trowsers of the same dark stuff.
seemed
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
side
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
so
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
spare
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From this reading This boat had always been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the captain’s, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter.
starboard
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From this reading This boat had always been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the captain’s, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter.
steel-like
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From this reading The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.
stoodverbUS /stʊd/
Maintained an upright posture.
From this reading The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.
strangely
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From this reading But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.
stuff
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From this reading A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black trowsers of the same dark stuff.
swart
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From this reading The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.
swung
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
tackles
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
tall
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From this reading The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.
technically
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From this reading This boat had always been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the captain’s, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter.
that
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From this reading The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.
The
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
then
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
there
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
they
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
This
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From this reading This boat had always been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the captain’s, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter.
though
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From this reading This boat had always been deemed one of the spare boats, though technically called the captain’s, on account of its hanging from the starboard quarter.
tooth
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From this reading The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.
trowsers
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From this reading A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black trowsers of the same dark stuff.
turban
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From this reading But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.
upon
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From this reading But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.
was
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From this reading The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.
were
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
which
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
white
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From this reading The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.
wide
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From this reading A rumpled Chinese jacket of black cotton funereally invested him, with wide black trowsers of the same dark stuff.
with
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From this reading The phantoms, for so they then seemed, were flitting on the other side of the deck, and, with a noiseless celerity, were casting loose the tackles and bands of the boat which swung there.
