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threatening or harmful
- But sliding down the ropes like baleful comets, the two Canallers rushed into the uproar, and sought to drag their man out of it towards the forecastle.Chapters 52-54 -- The Albatross; The Gam; The Town-Ho's Story (60% in)
There are no more uses of "baleful" in Moby Dick.
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