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"It was not me," cried Dough-Boy, "it was Aunt Charity that brought the ginger on board; and bade me never give the harpooneers any spirits, but only this ginger-jub -- so she called it."
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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"It was not me," cried Dough-Boy, "it was Aunt Charity that brought the ginger on board; and bade me never give the harpooneers any spirits, but only this ginger-jub -- so she called it."
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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'It was not me, 'cried Dough-Boy,' it was Aunt Charity that brought the ginger on board; and bade me never give the harpooneer any spirits, but only this ginger-jub -- so she called it. '
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Charity that brought the ginger on board; and bade me never give the harpooneers any spirits, but only this ginger-jub — so she called it.”
madmouth commented on the word ginger-jub
"'It was not me,' cried Dough-Boy, 'it was Aunt Charity that brought the ginger on board; and bade me never give the harpooneers any spirits, but only this ginger-jub--so she called it.'"
Moby-Dick, ch. 72
June 15, 2009