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Within are shabby shelves, ranged round with old decanters, bottles, flasks; and in those jaws of swift destruction, like another cursed Jonah (by which name indeed they called him), bustles a little withered old man, who, for their money, dearly sells the sailors deliriums and death.
- Herman Melville
Toes are scarce among veteran blubber-room men.
- Herman Melville
Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two.
- Junipero Serra
In 'Surprised by Grace: God's Relentless Pursuit of Rebels,' I retell the story of Jonah and show how Jonah was just as much in need of God's grace as the sailors and the Ninevites.
- Tullian Tchividjian