All 4 Uses of
aghast
in
Moby Dick
- And ever, as the white moon shows her affrighted face from the steep gullies in the blackness overhead, aghast Jonah sees the rearing bowsprit pointing high upward, but soon beat downward again towards the tormented deep.†
Chpt 7-9
- "Quick, Bildad," said Peleg, his partner, who, aghast at the close vicinity of the flying harpoon, had retreated towards the cabin gangway.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- Had any one of his old acquaintances on shore but half dreamed of what was lurking in him then, how soon would their aghast and righteous souls have wrenched the ship from such a fiendish man!†
Chpt 40-42
- For the moment all the aghast mate's thoughts seemed theirs; they raised a half mutinous cry.†
Chpt 118-120
Definition:
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(aghast) shocked with feelings of surprise and dismay (sadness, disappointment, or worry)