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  • It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Young Geoffrion 2007

  • It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane.

    Call me Ishmael Young Geoffrion 2007

  • So fare thee well, poor devil of a Sub-Sub, whose commentator I am.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane. therefore you must not, in every case at least, take the higgledy-piggledy whale statements, however authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • We agreed we had better this time both write on subjects we knew something about; Waterford accordingly selected ` A Day in a Sub-Sub -

    Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872

  • It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • So fare thee well, poor devil of a Sub-Sub, whose commentator I am.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • So fare thee well, poor devil of a Sub-Sub, whose commentator I am.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • (Supplied by a sub-sub-librarian) It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grubworm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random allusions to whales he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

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