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English citations of banned

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• 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

  And not only this, but to that ever-contracting, dropping circle ashore, who, for any reason, possessed the privilege of a less banned approach to him; to that timid circle the above hinted casualty — remaining, as it did, moodily unaccounted for by Ahab — invested itself with terrors, not entirely underived from the land of spirits and of wails.