All 5 Uses of
kindred
in
Moby Dick
- Yes, here were a set of sea-dogs, many of whom without the slightest bashfulness had boarded great whales on the high seas—entire strangers to them—and duelled them dead without winking; and yet, here they sat at a social breakfast table—all of the same calling, all of kindred tastes—looking round as sheepishly at each other as though they had never been out of sight of some sheepfold among the Green Mountains.†
Chpt 4-6
- The report of his undeniable delirium at sea was likewise popularly ascribed to a kindred cause.†
Chpt 40-42 *
- But if the doctrine of Fast-Fish be pretty generally applicable, the kindred doctrine of Loose-Fish is still more widely so.†
Chpt 88-90
- The continual sight of the fiend shapes before me, capering half in smoke and half in fire, these at last begat kindred visions in my soul, so soon as I began to yield to that unaccountable drowsiness which ever would come over me at a midnight helm.†
Chpt 94-96
- Now, as the lightning rod to a spire on shore is intended to carry off the perilous fluid into the soil; so the kindred rod which at sea some ships carry to each mast, is intended to conduct it into the water.†
Chpt 118-120
Definition:
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(kindred) similar in quality or character
or:
closely related -- such as family or things with shared origin