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important or significant in quantity
- The Albino is as well made as other men—has no substantive deformity—and yet this mere aspect of all-pervading whiteness makes him more strangely hideous than the ugliest abortion.Chapters 40-42 -- Midnight, Forecastle; Moby Dick; The Whiteness of the Whale (79% in)
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