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gold watch token of gratitude often bestowed on retiring employee after years of service. [Am. Pop. Culture: Misc.] See : Farewell |
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When reaching far over the bow, Stubb slowly churned his long sharp lance into the fish, and kept it there, carefully churning and churning, as if cautiously seeking to feel after some gold watch that the whale might have swallowed, and which he was fearful of breaking ere he could hook it out. And I had not got a gold watch and chain, which was another, still better--and he had promised me one from London only the day before, which was a third, best of all. The celebrated doctor listened to him, and in the middle of his sentence looked at his big gold watch. |
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