Rare or idiosyncratic words and expressions are given lower priority compared to "difficult, yet commonly used" English words.

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By Richard Harding Davis. Illustrated By Walter Appleton Clark. It may seem presumptuous that so young a man as myself should proposeto write his life and memoirs, for, as a rule, one waits until he hasaccomplished something in the world, or until he has reached old age,before he ventures to tell of the times in which he has lived, and ofhis part in them.

Command the murderous chalices! Drink ye harpooners! Drink and swear, ye men that man the deathful whaleboat's bow - Death to Moby Dick!" So Captain Ahab binds his crew to fulfil his obsession - the destruction of the great white whale. Under his lordly but maniacal command the Pequod's commercial mission is perverted to one of vengeance. To Ahab, the monster that destroyed his body is not a creature, but the symbol of "some unknown but still reasoning thing.

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3 Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961). Revisions and updates.