All 4 Uses of
ineffable
in
Moby Dick
- Morning to ye, shipmates, morning; the ineffable heavens bless ye; I'm sorry I stopped ye."†
Chpt 19-21
- Will I, nill I, the ineffable thing has tied me to him; tows me with a cable I have no knife to cut.†
Chpt 37-39 *
- Aside from those more obvious considerations touching Moby Dick, which could not but occasionally awaken in any man's soul some alarm, there was another thought, or rather vague, nameless horror concerning him, which at times by its intensity completely overpowered all the rest; and yet so mystical and well nigh ineffable was it, that I almost despair of putting it in a comprehensible form.†
Chpt 40-42
- It is an ineffably oozy, stringy affair, most frequently found in the tubs of sperm, after a prolonged squeezing, and subsequent decanting.†
Chpt 94-96
Definition:
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(ineffable) something that cannot be adequately described with words--perhaps something too wonderful or intense to describe