All 5 Uses of
chronicle
in
Moby Dick
- The whale has no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler, you will say.†
Chpt 22-24 *
- THE WHALE NO FAMOUS AUTHOR, AND WHALING NO FAMOUS CHRONICLER?†
Chpt 22-24
- …you must be a thorough whaleman, to see these sights; and not only that, but if you wish to return to such a sight again, you must be sure and take the exact intersecting latitude and longitude of your first stand-point, else so chance-like are such observations of the hills, that your precise, previous stand-point would require a laborious re-discovery; like the Soloma Islands, which still remain incognita, though once high-ruffed Mendanna trod them and old Figuera chronicled them.†
Chpt 55-57
- Perhaps a very little thought will now enable you to account for those repeated whaling disasters—some few of which are casually chronicled—of this man or that man being taken out of the boat by the line, and lost.†
Chpt 58-60
- Akin to the adventure of Perseus and Andromeda—indeed, by some supposed to be indirectly derived from it—is that famous story of St. George and the Dragon; which dragon I maintain to have been a whale; for in many old chronicles whales and dragons are strangely jumbled together, and often stand for each other.†
Chpt 82-84
Definition:
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(chronicle) a record of events; or the act of creating such a record or telling others of the events