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  • But strangely crowning his ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

  • But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban, the living hair braided and coiled round and round upon his head.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

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  • But strangely crowning this ebonness was a glistening white plaited turban...

    - Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 48

    July 25, 2008