Citations:admeasurement

English citations of admeasurement

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• 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.

  But as I was crowded for space, and wished the other parts of my body to remain a blank page for a poem I was then composing — at least, what untattooed parts might remain — I did not trouble myself with the odd inches; nor, indeed, should inches at all enter into a congenial admeasurement of the whale.