Both Uses of
innumerable
in
Moby Dick
- A vast pulpy mass, furlongs in length and breadth, of a glancing cream-colour, lay floating on the water, innumerable long arms radiating from its centre, and curling and twisting like a nest of anacondas, as if blindly to clutch at any hapless object within reach.†
Chpt 58-60
- And as that famous great tierce is mystically carved in front, so the whale's vast plaited forehead forms innumerable strange devices for the emblematical adornment of his wondrous tun.†
Chpt 76-78 *
Definition:
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(innumerable) too numerous to be counted