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on oly-cook, yarb said:
"Citation on doughnut." more...
on fritter, yarb said:
"Citation on doughnut." more...
on try, yarb said:
"Citation on doughnut." more...
on doughnut, yarb said:
"...these men actually lived for several months on the mouldy scraps of whales which had been left ashore after trying out the blubber. Among the..." more...
on shindy, yarb said:
"Don't I always say that to be good, a whale-steak must be tough? There are those sharks now over the side, don't you see they prefer it tough and..." more...
on pig-lead, yarb said:
"See also piglead. Citation on argosy." more...
on piglead, yarb said:
"Citation on argosy. See also pig-lead." more...
on argosy, yarb said:
"...this grand argosy we towed heavily forged along, as if laden with piglead in bulk.

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 64" more...
on tandem, yarb said:
"It was a calm; so, forming a tandem of three boats, we commenced the slow business of towing the trophy...

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 64" more...
on curvet, yarb said:
"Citation on skittishly." more...
on skittishly, yarb said:
"...when the second iron is thrown overboard, it thenceforth becomes a dangling, sharp-edged terror, skittishly curvetting about both boat and..." more...
on spiracle, yarb said:
"...jet after jet of white smoke was agonizingly shot from the spiracle of the whale...

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 61" more...
on spasmodic, yarb said:
"Citation on cant." more...
on cant, yarb said:
"A continual cascade played at the bows; a ceaseless whirling eddy in her wake; and, at the slightest motion from within, even but of a little finger,..." more...
on serpentine, yarb said:
"...the graceful repose of the line, as it silently serpentines about the oarsmen before being brought into actual play...

- Melville,..." more...
on reeve, yarb said:
"...carrying the line high aloft and then reeving it downwards through a block towards the tub, so as in..." more...
on instinct, yarb said:
"...their immense magnitude renders it very hard really to believe that such bulky masses of overgrowth can possibly be instinct, in all parts, with..." more...
on mead, yarb said:
"...morning mowers, who side by side slowly and seethingly advance their scythes through the long wet grass of marshy meads...

- Melville,..." more...
on blunt spoon, yarb said:
"Not once? If you ask me that's unhealthy. I hork at least once a day, sometimes more." more...
on swear jar, yarb said:
"Sounds a lot like being a legger." more...
on timboimbo's profile, yarb said:
"Hey - I notice you're reading Parade's End - I read it a few months ago and culled a few citations, but didn't make a serious effort. A..." more...
on blunt spoon, yarb said:
"An implement for the removal of eyeballs." more...
on doltish, yarb said:
"Yes, using a blunt spoon." more...
on v.'s profile, yarb said:
"Vera Violet Vinn is very, very, very awful on her violin." more...
on misspoke, yarb said:
"And her brother, young master Poke." more...
on wocome, yarb said:
"Emocow backwords. Wocome forwards.

Thank you.
You're wocome." more...
on teeth, yarb said:
"I have teeth." more...
on blowout, yarb said:
"And elsewhere, no?" more...
on ribby, yarb said:
"...bony, ribby regions of the earth...

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 57" more...
on ribbby, yarb said:
"Fuck! Thanks." more...
on the list You-Know-What, yarb said:
"Completely agree, sionnach. The contradiction is between possessing a (whole) cake, and at the same time enjoying eating it." more...
on mattock, yarb said:
"I suppose I was thinking of a broader sense of peasant, connoting a subservient or lowest socio-economic grouping." more...
on ribbby, yarb said:
"...bony, ribby regions of the earth...

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 57" more...
on skrimshander, yarb said:
"More useful citation on busk." more...
on busk, yarb said:
"..ladies' busks wrought out of the Right Whale-bone, and other like skrimshander articles, as the whalemen call the numerous little ingenious..." more...
on kedger, yarb said:
"On Tower-hill, as you go down to the London docks, you may have seen a crippled beggar (or kedger, as the sailors say) holding a painted board..." more...
on bepatch, yarb said:
"They seemed clad in the skins of beasts, so torn and bepatched the raiment that had survived nearly four years of cruising.

- Melville,..." more...
on bespatch, yarb said:
"Oops! It's bepatch. Thanks whichbe." more...
on irrisory, yarb said:
"More specifically, I thought sneezing was supposed to present an opportunity for the devil to steal in and possess your soul; hence "bless you" to..." more...
on the list 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, yarb said:
"Definitely; I'll think about it. Punt? Jalopy? Luge? Ruby slippers?" more...
on odorous, yarb said:
"Weirdnet is capricious, Mia. Ours is not to reason why." more...
on archiepiscopacy, yarb said:
"Citation on auto-da-fe." more...
on auto-da-fe, yarb said:
"'Though there are no Auto-da-Fe's in Lima now,' said one of the company to another; 'I fear our sailor friend runs risks of the..." more...
on amuck, yarb said:
"Citation on crescentic." more...
on crescentic, yarb said:
"...it was then that Steelkilt proposed to the two Canallers, thus far apparently of one mind with him, to burst out of their hole at the next..." more...
on ruffle, yarb said:
"Citation on chicha (in the sense of a collar)." more...
on chicha, yarb said:
"'I see! I see!' impetuously exclaimed Don Pedro, spilling his chicha upon his silvery ruffles."

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 54" more...
on cannikin, yarb said:
"'Aye, aye, my merry lads, it's a lively leak this; hold a cannikin, one of ye, and let's have a taste. By the Lord, it's worth bottling!'"

-..." more...
on peltry, yarb said:
"...wild barbarians, whose red painted faces flash from out their peltry wigwams..."

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 54" more...
on bespatch, yarb said:
"They seemed clad in the skins of beasts, so torn and bepatched the raiment that had survived nearly four years of cruising.

- Melville,..." more...
on fuller, yarb said:
"As if the waves had been fullers, this craft was bleached like the skeleton of a stranded walrus.

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 52" more...
on ash-hole, yarb said:
"...now and then such unaccountable odds and ends of strange nations come up from the unknown nooks and ash-holes of the earth to man these floating..." more...
on yuks, yarb said:
"Imitative of laughter: yuk yuk yuk..." more...
on mattock, yarb said:
"In my opinion a peasant can be revolting, but not feudal. Others may differ." more...
on the list Odorous, yarb said:
"I smell like garlic, tansy and tea." more...
on odorous, yarb said:
"I especially like the inclusion of tansy and balsam resin." more...
on the porch, yarb said:
"*runs around trying to smash mosquitoes between palms*" more...
on mattock, yarb said:
"Along with the pitchfork, the favoured weapon of the revolting feudal peasant." more...
on awl, yarb said:
"Awl things to awl men." more...
on weed whacky, yarb said:
"I can confirm your friend's report, pterodactyl." more...
on rack, yarb said:
"Citation on scud." more...
on scud, yarb said:
"...the driving scud, rack, and mist, grew darker with the shadows of night...

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 48" more...
on helter-skelter, yarb said:
"The whole crew were half suffocated as they were tossed helter-skelter into the white curdling cream of the squall.

- Melville,..." more...
on ebonness, yarb said:
"But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban...

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 48" more...
on swart, yarb said:
"The figure that now stood by its bows was tall and swart, with one white tooth evilly protruding from its steel-like lips.

- Melville,..." more...
on far be it for me, yarb said:
"Far be it from me to list far be it from me." more...
on the list 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, yarb said:
"Brilliant! I love swan boat and giant eagle." more...
on brit, yarb said:
"In the Propontis, as far as I can learn, none of that peculiar substance called brit is to be found, the aliment of the right whale.

-..." more...
on thwack, yarb said:
"Citation on portly." more...
on portly, yarb said:
"But he was stopped on the way by a portly sperm whale, that begged a few moments' confidential business with him. That business consisted in..." more...
on miasma, yarb said:
"...endangered by serpents, savages, tigers, poisonous miasmas, with all the other common perils incident to wandering in the heart of unknown..." more...
on scuttle-butt, yarb said:
"Citation on cordon." more...
on cordon, yarb said:
"It was the middle-watch: a fair moonlight; the seamen were standing in a cordon, extending from one of the fresh-water butts in the waist, to the..." more...
on windrow, yarb said:
"...the desolate shiftings of the windrowed snows of prairies...

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 42" more...
on howdah, yarb said:
"To the native Indian of Peru, the continual sight of the snow-howdahed Andes conveys naught of dread, except, perhaps, in the mere fancying of the..." more...
on far be it for me, yarb said:
"I'm a "from"-er, but I can see why "for" has currency. The idea is that to do this thing would be a long reach for me - far away from what I'd..." more...
on the movers and shakers, yarb said:
"The movers are those with influence, the shakers those with power. And trendy wooden furniture." more...
on the spirit is willing, yarb said:
"I've heard it used to mean "not physically able" - particularly in sports commentary." more...
on far be it for me, yarb said:
"Well, "from me" trumps "for me" by 3 g-hits to 1." more...
on key, yarb said:
"...with the mad secret of his unabated rage bolted up and keyed in him...

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 41" more...
on bruit, yarb said:
"...similar disasters, however little bruited ashore, were by no means unusual in the fishery...

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 41" more...
on spangle, yarb said:
"...his vivid aspect, when seen gliding at high noon through a dark blue sea, leaving a milky-way wake of creamy foam, all spangled with golden..." more...
on unensanguined, yarb said:
"...if indeed he should ever be made to spout thick blood, such a sight would be but a ghastly deception; for again in unensanguined billows..." more...
on quenchless, yarb said:
"A wild, mystical, sympathetical feeling was in me; Ahab's quenchless feud seemed mine.

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 41" more...
on fillip, yarb said:
"I mark this in our old Mogul's wine; it's quite as deadening to some as filliping to others.

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 40" more...
on twig, yarb said:
"I twigged it, knew it; had had the gift, might readily have prophesied it--for when I clapped my eye upon his skull I saw it.

- Melville,..." more...
on demigorgon, yarb said:
"Citation on whelp." more...
on sharkish, yarb said:
"Citation on whelp." more...
on whelp, yarb said:
"Oh, God! to sail with such a heathen crew that have small touch of human mothers in them! Whelped somewhere by the sharkish sea. The white whale..." more...
on far be it for me, yarb said:
"I thought it was far be it from me. I guess this is an understandable variant." more...
on bugs, yarb said:
"When I click on the link from v.'s profile to that user's lists, I get redirected to the last 500..." more...
on doltish, yarb said:
"Take off thine eye! more intolerable than fiends' glarings is a doltish stare!"

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 36" more...
on sinew, yarb said:
"I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it."

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 36" more...
on bigotry, yarb said:
"The hours wore on;--Ahab now shut up within his cabin; anon, pacing the deck, with the same intense bigotry of purpose in his aspect.

-..." more...
on cark, yarb said:
"For nowadays, the whale-fishery furnishes an asylum for many romantic, melancholy, and absent-minded young men, disgusted with the carking care of..." more...
on the bechdel rule, yarb said:
"I do agree with you in principle, Mia. Just sayin' that lots of people are genre-bound, only really interested in testosterone-laden action movies,..." more...
on yarblet, yarb said:
"*pats sides surreptitiously, briefly touches ears, nose, knees*" more...
on baleinolalia, yarb said:
"A common phenomenon at raves in the early '90s.

Coined by sionnach on parmacetty." more...
on womble, yarb said:
"I believe they have been known to do just that, sionnach." more...
on popcorn lung, yarb said:
"Did you know they force-fed a mouse with 100 gallons of milk and it died?" more...
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