All 4 Uses of
boisterous
in
Moby Dick
- For my mind was made up to sail in no other than a Nantucket craft, because there was a fine, boisterous something about everything connected with that famous old island, which amazingly pleased me.†
Chpt 1-3
- How billow-like and boisterously grand!†
Chpt 7-9 *
- Delight is to him, whom all the waves of the billows of the seas of the boisterous mob can never shake from this sure Keel of the Ages.†
Chpt 7-9
- Spite of this frigid winter night in the boisterous Atlantic, spite of my wet feet and wetter jacket, there was yet, it then seemed to me, many a pleasant haven in store; and meads and glades so eternally vernal, that the grass shot up by the spring, untrodden, unwilted, remains at midsummer.†
Chpt 22-24
Definition:
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(boisterous) excessively noisy and unrestrained