All 8 Uses of
abide
in
Moby Dick
- If we compare land animals in respect to magnitude, with those that take up their abode in the deep, we shall find they will appear contemptible in the comparison.†
Chpt Extr
- And brave as he might be, it was that sort of bravery chiefly, visible in some intrepid men, which, while generally abiding firm in the conflict with seas, or winds, or whales, or any of the ordinary irrational horrors of the world, yet cannot withstand those more terrific, because more spiritual terrors, which sometimes menace you from the concentrating brow of an enraged and mighty man.†
Chpt 25-27
- But all these seemed only his casual stopping-places and ocean-inns, so to speak, not his places of prolonged abode.†
Chpt 43-45 *
- So that when I shall hereafter detail to you all the specialities and concentrations of potency everywhere lurking in this expansive monster; when I shall show you some of his more inconsiderable braining feats; I trust you will have renounced all ignorant incredulity, and be ready to abide by this; that though the Sperm Whale stove a passage through the Isthmus of Darien, and mixed the Atlantic with the Pacific, you would not elevate one hair of your eye-brow.†
Chpt 76-78
- A dark valley between three mighty, heaven-abiding peaks, that almost seem the Trinity, in some faint earthly symbol.†
Chpt 97-99
- But there it was; and there it had abided for now some sixty years or more.†
Chpt 106-108 *
- Do thou abide below here, where they shall serve thee, as if thou wert the captain.†
Chpt 127-129
- "—Then advancing towards the doubloon in the main-mast—"Men, this gold is mine, for I earned it; but I shall let it abide here till the White Whale is dead; and then, whosoever of ye first raises him, upon the day he shall be killed, this gold is that man's; and if on that day I shall again raise him, then, ten times its sum shall be divided among all of ye!†
Chpt 133-135
Definitions:
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(abide as in: abide in the forest) to live in a place
or more rarely: to live with someone or something
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(abide as in: abide by her decision) to tolerate or put up with something