Only for the most patient and attentive of future readers (you know who you are) ...
SCENES BEYOND THE WESTERN BORDER - SEPTEMBER 1851
One hour I read the National Intelligencer, full of sanguine Whiggery--grave, dignified, with an occasional streak of cream in an ocean of milk and water. In the next, I am attentively perusing the abusive, yet vigorous, the self-important Globe, which has got a way of late of frequently stumbling upon truths.
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MOBY-DICK - 1851
If you attentively regard almost any quadruped’s spine, you will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebræ to a strung necklace of dwarfed skulls, all bearing rudimental resemblance to the skull proper. -- Chapter 80 The Nut
PIERRE - 1852
Pierre while in the stage, had formerly been drawn into an attentive perusal of the work on "Chronometricals and Horologicals;"
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REDBURN - 1849
For months previous I had been poring over old New York papers, delightedly perusing the long columns of ship advertisements, all of which possessed a strange, romantic charm to me.
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