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No references found	Regarding the Sperm whale's head as a solid oblong, you may, on an inclined plane, sideways divide it into two quoins, whereof the lower is the bony structure, forming the cranium and jaws, and the upper an unctuous mass wholly free from bones; its broad forward end forming the expanded vertical apparent forehead of the whale. Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context It is not, perhaps, entirely because the whale is so excessively unctuous that landsmen seem to regard the eating of him with abhorrence; that appears to result, in some way, from the consideration before mentioned: i. Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context I have no doubt in the world that you are doing well in that greasy Flanders; living probably on the fat of the unctuous land; sitting like a black-haired, tawny-skinned, long-nosed Israelite by the flesh-pots of Egypt; or like a rascally son of Levi near the brass cauldrons of the sanctuary, and every now and then plunging in a consecrated hook, and drawing out of the sea, of broth the fattest of heave-shoulders and the fleshiest of wave-breasts. The Professor by Bronte, Charlotte View in context	Unconditioned Reflexes unconfined explosion unconformable Unconformity unconformity iceberg unconscious Unconscious, The unconsolidated backfill unconsolidated material unconstitutional unconstrained optimization problem uncontrolled fragments uncontrolled mosaic Uncontrolled Photomosaic unconventional warfare uncore uncorrecting uncorrelated random variables uncountable uncountable set uncouple uncoupling phenomena uncoursed unction unctuarium unctuous uncurrying Uncyclopedia undamped wave unde undé undecagon undecahedron undecanal undecane undecanoic acid undecomino undecyl undecylenic acid undecylenic alcohol undecylenyl acetate undée undefined external reference undefined variable undelete Under Milk Wood under plate under the hood under way Under, Marie under-eaves course	UNCSAAL UNCSB-JSA UNCSC UNCSD UNCSG UNCSGN UNCST UNCSTD UNCSW UNCT Unctad Unctad Unctad Unctad UNCTC UNCTD unction unction unction Unction of God Unction of God unctions unctions unctions Unctious Unctious unctuarium unctuosity unctuosity unctuosity unctuous unctuously unctuously unctuously unctuousness unctuousness unctuousness UNCTV UNCU Unculpable Unculpable Uncult uncultivable uncultivatable uncultivated uncultivated Unculture uncultured uncultured Uncunning Uncunningly Uncunningness Uncurable Uncurably Uncurbable uncurbed uncurbed uncured UNCURK uncurl uncurled

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Regarding the Sperm whale's head as a solid oblong, you may, on an inclined plane, sideways divide it into two quoins, whereof the lower is the bony structure, forming the cranium and jaws, and the upper an unctuous mass wholly free from bones; its broad forward end forming the expanded vertical apparent forehead of the whale.

Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context

It is not, perhaps, entirely because the whale is so excessively unctuous that landsmen seem to regard the eating of him with abhorrence; that appears to result, in some way, from the consideration before mentioned: i.

Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context

I have no doubt in the world that you are doing well in that greasy Flanders; living probably on the fat of the unctuous land; sitting like a black-haired, tawny-skinned, long-nosed Israelite by the flesh-pots of Egypt; or like a rascally son of Levi near the brass cauldrons of the sanctuary, and every now and then plunging in a consecrated hook, and drawing out of the sea, of broth the fattest of heave-shoulders and the fleshiest of wave-breasts.

The Professor by Bronte, Charlotte View in context

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