Citations:above-ground

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  • 1851Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
    We all know what an astonishing atmospheric weight we ourselves stand up under; even here, above-ground, in the air; how vast, then, the burden of a whale, bearing on his back a column of two hundred fathoms of ocean!