A is for Ahab
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Moby Dick, broken up into individual sentences, alphabetized, and posted at intervals for your convenience and pleasure.
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Had they been strictly held to their one final and romantic object- that final and romantic object, too many would have turned from in disgust.
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Had these Leviathans been but a flock of simple sheep, pursued over the pasture by three fierce wolves, they could not possibly have evinced such excessive dismay.
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Had the trump of judgment blown, they could not have quivered more; yet still they felt no terror; rather pleasure.
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Had not the stranger stood between me and the door, I would have bolted out of it quicker than ever I bolted a dinner.
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Had it not been for us whalemen, that tract of land would this day perhaps have been in as howling condition as the coast of Labrador.
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Had he helped himself at the table, doubtless, never more would he have been able to hold his head up in this honest world; nevertheless, strange to say, Ahab never forbade him.
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Had any one of his old acquaintances on shore but half dreamed of what was lurking in him then, how soon would their aghast and righteous souls have wrenched the ship from such a fiendish man!
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Ha, Ishmael, muttered I, backing out, Wretched entertainment at the sign of 'The Trap!
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"ha!" cried Daggoo, all at once, from his now quiet, swinging perch overhead; and looking further off from the side, we saw an arm thrust upright from the blue waves; a sight strange to see, as an arm thrust forth from the grass over a grave.