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- This soothing savage had redeemed it.Chapters 10-12 — A Bosom Friend; Nightgown; Biographical (26% in)
- ...vesture, the alb or tunic, worn beneath the cassock; and though among the holy pomps of the Romish faith, white is specially employed in the celebration of the Passion of our Lord; though in the Vision of St. John, white robes are given to the redeemed, and the four-and-twenty elders stand clothed in white before the great-white throne, and the Holy One that sitteth there white like wool; yet for all these accumulated associations, with whatever is sweet, and honourable, and sublime,...Chapters 40-42 — Midnight, Forecastle; Moby Dick; The Whiteness of the Whale (66% in)
- Once a vagabond on his own canal, I have received good turns from one of these Canallers; I thank him heartily; would fain be not ungrateful; but it is often one of the prime redeeming qualities of your man of violence, that at times he has as stiff an arm to back a poor stranger in a strait, as to plunder a wealthy one.Chapters 52-54 — The Albatross; The Gam; The Town-Ho's Story (57% in)
There are no more uses of "redemption" in Moby Dick.
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