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Describing something as someone's white whale is a reference to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick where the captain's obsession with getting the white whale led to his undoing.Moby-Dick = arguably the preeminent American novel
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Moby-Dick.† (source)
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Moby-Dick.† (source)
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How much harder to understand the mind-set behind, say, Moby-Dick.† (source)
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Just as the chapters on whaling in Moby-Dick can be omitted by all but the most punishment-loving readers, so the packing scenes that Morgenstern details here are really best left alone.† (source)
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Or maybe Moby-Dick.† (source)
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Then another guy appeared, much much younger and much much bigger, half a head taller even than Gyuri, Malaysian or Indonesian with a face tattoo and eyepopping diamonds in his ears and a black topknot on the crown of his head that made him look like one of the harpooners from Moby Dick, if one of the harpooners from Moby Dick had happened to be wearing velvet track pants and a peach satin baseball jacket.† (source)Moby Dick = arguably the preeminent American novel
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Herman Melville, Moby-Dick Max read the note several times before folding the paper again, careful to keep its original crease.† (source)
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Indeed, Uga III was immortalized in it, along with Rin Tin Tin, Man o' War, Moby Dick, Toto, and The White Rabbit.† (source)
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He knew the entire first chapter of Moby-Dick by heart.† (source)
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Like in Moby Dick?† (source)
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For some reason this priest in Flandreau would teach no other book all four years but Moby-Dick, the story of the great white whale.† (source)
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He was prepared, in his cynicism, to find Moby Dick unreadable—five hundred pages about chasing a whale?† (source)
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Moby-Dick.† (source)
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In the paste literally dozens of epic novels have been written that have changed the course of history: Moby Dick.† (source)
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Glancing at himself in the mirror, he thought he looked a little like some rough sailor out of Moby Dick.† (source)
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MOBY DICK; OR THE WHALE by Herman Melville ETYMOLOGY. (source)MOBY DICK = untracked name in this novel
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"Captain Ahab," said Tashtego, "that white whale must be the same that some call Moby Dick." (source)
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Death and devils! men, it is Moby Dick ye have seen—Moby Dick—Moby Dick! (source)
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Death and devils! men, it is Moby Dick ye have seen—Moby Dick—Moby Dick! (source)Moby Dick = untracked name in this novel
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Death and devils! men, it is Moby Dick ye have seen—Moby Dick—Moby Dick! (source)
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Captain Ahab, I have heard of Moby Dick—but it was not Moby Dick that took off thy leg? (source)
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Captain Ahab, I have heard of Moby Dick—but it was not Moby Dick that took off thy leg? (source)
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God hunt us all, if we do not hunt Moby Dick to his death! (source)
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Moby Dick that brought me to this dead stump I stand on now. (source)
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In the short gam that ensued she gave us strong news of Moby Dick. (source)
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It seemed not a whale; and yet is this Moby Dick? thought Daggoo. (source)
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The WHITE Whale—a Sperm Whale—Moby Dick, have ye seen him? (source)
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And I'm thinking Moby Dick doesn't bite so much as he swallows. (source)
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