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lack of basic things needed to live in a satisfactory manner
- For not only would they meet with all the sympathies of sailors, but likewise with all the peculiar congenialities arising from a common pursuit and mutually shared privations and perils.Chapters 52-54 -- The Albatross; The Gam; The Town-Ho's Story (12% in)
- Forty years of continual whaling! forty years of privation, and peril, and storm-time! forty years on the pitiless sea! for forty years has Ahab forsaken the peaceful land, for forty years to make war on the horrors of the deep!Chapters 130-132 -- The Hat; The Pequod meets the Delight; The Symphony (73% in)
There are no more uses of "privation" in Moby Dick.
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