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extreme (in a negative sense such as misery, hopelessness, submissiveness, cruelty, or cowardice)
- So, deprived of one leg, and the strange ship of course being altogether unsupplied with the kindly invention, Ahab now found himself abjectly reduced to a clumsy landsman again; hopelessly eyeing the uncertain changeful height he could hardly hope to attain.Chapters 100-102 -- The Pequod meets….; The Decanter; A Bower in the Arsacides (6% in)
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