But with this, neither the author nor the public have any other concern than as some observation is necessary upon those parts of the work which thirteen years have made
comparatively obsolete.
I craved human companionship, and, coming off the poop, took my place by the side of the boatswain (a man whom I did not like) in a
comparatively dry spot where at worst we had water only up to our knees.
You will say that that was in the
comparatively barbarous times; that these are barbarous times too, because also,
comparatively speaking, pins are stuck in even now; that though man has now learned to see more clearly than in barbarous ages, he is still far from having learnt to act as reason and science would dictate.
He was only temporarily detained for some
comparatively trivial assault; but he gave everyone the impression of a man with a black past and a dangerous future.
I prompted our medical orator with a neat speech from behind the curtain; and I never heard such applause, from such a
comparatively small audience, before in my life.
He is less polished, less insinuating than Mainwaring, and is
comparatively deficient in the power of saying those delightful things which put one in good humour with oneself and all the world.
As soon as I reached
comparatively level ground I urged my mount into a canter and continued this, where the going permitted, until, close upon dusk, I discovered the point where other tracks joined those of Powell.
Our progress, at first
comparatively easy, became more and more difficult.
Accustomed to ease, and unequal to the struggles incident to an infant society, the affluent emigrant was barely enabled to maintain his own rank by the weight of his personal superiority and acquirements; but, the moment that his head was laid in the grave, his indolent and
comparatively uneducated offspring were compelled to yield precedency to the more active energies of a class whose exertions had been stimulated by necessity.
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Comparatively calm, Mistress Blythe,
comparatively calm.
As the day approached when he was to leave her for a
comparatively long stay, she grew melting and affectionate, remembering his many acts of consideration and his repeated expressions of an ardent attachment.
Ahab well knew that although his friends at home would think little of his entering a boat in certain
comparatively harmless vicissitudes of the chase, for the sake of being near the scene of action and giving his orders in person, yet for Captain Ahab to have a boat actually apportioned to him as a regular headsman in the hunt --above all for Captain Ahab to be supplied with five extra men, as that same boat's crew, he well knew that such generous conceits never entered the heads of the owners of the Pequod.