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repellent or sickening — frequently as with the uncensored depiction of gruesome death or injury
- He lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled Missouri.Chapters 34-36 -- The Cabin-Table; The Mast-Head; The Qarter-Deck--Ahab and all (28% in)
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