Citations:abandonment

English citations of abandonment

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• 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.

  For one, I gave myself up to the abandonment of the time and the place; but while yet all a-rush to encounter the whale, could see naught in that brute but the deadliest ill.

  The thing is common in that fishery; and in the sequel of the narrative, it will then be seen what like abandonment befell myself.