All 7 Uses of
antiquity
in
Moby Dick
- But to all these her old antiquities, were added new and marvellous features, pertaining to the wild business that for more than half a century she had followed.†
Chpt 16-18
- I account that man more honourable than that great captain of antiquity who boasted of taking as many walled towns.†
Chpt 22-24 *
- Winding far down from within the very heart of this spiked Hotel de Cluny where we here stand—however grand and wonderful, now quit it;—and take your way, ye nobler, sadder souls, to those vast Roman halls of Thermes; where far beneath the fantastic towers of man's upper earth, his root of grandeur, his whole awful essence sits in bearded state; an antique buried beneath antiquities, and throned on torsoes!†
Chpt 40-42
- The more I dive into this matter of whaling, and push my researches up to the very spring-head of it so much the more am I impressed with its great honourableness and antiquity; and especially when I find so many great demi-gods and heroes, prophets of all sorts, who one way or other have shed distinction upon it, I am transported with the reflection that I myself belong, though but subordinately, to so emblazoned a fraternity.†
Chpt 82-84
- For according to King Juba, the military elephants of antiquity often hailed the morning with their trunks uplifted in the profoundest silence.†
Chpt 85-87
- But not alone has this Leviathan left his pre-adamite traces in the stereotype plates of nature, and in limestone and marl bequeathed his ancient bust; but upon Egyptian tablets, whose antiquity seems to claim for them an almost fossiliferous character, we find the unmistakable print of his fin.†
Chpt 103-105
- Nor must there be omitted another strange attestation of the antiquity of the whale, in his own osseous post-diluvian reality, as set down by the venerable John Leo, the old Barbary traveller.†
Chpt 103-105
Definition:
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(antiquity) ancient times; or a relic of ancient times
(Typically references a period preceding the European Middle Ages which began during the 5th century AD.)