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to be a sign of future events
- In this foreshadowing interval too, all humor, forced or natural, vanished.Chapters 130-132 — The Hat; The Pequod meets the Delight; The Symphony (6% in)
- Indeed, in some sort, they were not grieved at this event, at least as a portent; for they regarded it, not as a foreshadowing of evil in the future, but as the fulfilment of an evil already presaged.Chapters 124-126 — The Needle; The Log and Line; The Life-Buoy (81% in)
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