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to happen; or to become known
- Nevertheless, so potent an influence did this thing have on those seamen in the Pequod who came to the full knowledge of it, and by such a strange delicacy, to call it so, were they governed in this matter, that they kept the secret among themselves so that it never transpired abaft the Pequod's main-mast.Chapters 52-54 -- The Albatross; The Gam; The Town-Ho's Story (26% in)
- So that, through their zeal for him, they had all conspired, so far as in them lay, to muffle up the knowledge of this thing from others; and hence it was, that not till a considerable interval had elapsed, did it transpire upon the Pequod's decks.Chapters 106-108 -- Ahab's Leg; The Carpenter; Ahab and the Carpenter (21% in)
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