All 22 Uses of
malicious
in
Moby Dick
- I cherished no malice towards him, though he had been skylarking with me not a little in the matter of my bedfellow.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- That Himmalehan, salt-sea Mastodon, clothed with such portentousness of unconscious power, that his very panics are more to be dreaded than his most fearless and malicious assaults!†
Chpt 13-15
- When on that shivering winter's night, the Pequod thrust her vindictive bows into the cold malicious waves, who should I see standing at her helm but Bulkington!†
Chpt 22-24
- He tasks me; he heaps me; I see in him outrageous strength, with an inscrutable malice sinewing it.†
Chpt 34-36
- Yet as of late the Sperm Whale fishery had been marked by various and not unfrequent instances of great ferocity, cunning, and malice in the monster attacked; therefore it was, that those who by accident ignorantly gave battle to Moby Dick; such hunters, perhaps, for the most part, were content to ascribe the peculiar terror he bred, more, as it were, to the perils of the Sperm Whale fishery at large, than to the individual cause.†
Chpt 40-42
- No turbaned Turk, no hired Venetian or Malay, could have smote him with more seeming malice.†
Chpt 40-42
- The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung.†
Chpt 40-42
- All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.†
Chpt 40-42
- Nor, in quite other aspects, does Nature in her least palpable but not the less malicious agencies, fail to enlist among her forces this crowning attribute of the terrible.†
Chpt 40-42
- Nor, in some historic instances, has the art of human malice omitted so potent an auxiliary.†
Chpt 40-42
- That point is this: The Sperm Whale is in some cases sufficiently powerful, knowing, and judiciously malicious, as with direct aforethought to stave in, utterly destroy, and sink a large ship; and what is more, the Sperm Whale HAS done it.†
Chpt 43-45
- I might proceed with several more examples, one way or another known to me, of the great power and malice at times of the sperm whale.†
Chpt 43-45
- But Radney, the mate, was ugly as a mule; yet as hardy, as stubborn, as malicious.†
Chpt 52-54
- So close did the monster come to the hull, that at first it seemed as if he meant it malice; but suddenly going down in a maelstrom, within three rods of the planks, he wholly disappeared from view, as if diving under the keel.†
Chpt 73-75
- …up that uncontaminated aroma,—literally and truly, like the smell of spring violets; I declare to you, that for the time I lived as in a musky meadow; I forgot all about our horrible oath; in that inexpressible sperm, I washed my hands and my heart of it; I almost began to credit the old Paracelsan superstition that sperm is of rare virtue in allaying the heat of anger; while bathing in that bath, I felt divinely free from all ill-will, or petulance, or malice, of any sort whatsoever.†
Chpt 94-96
- So that what you take for the White Whale's malice is only his awkwardness.†
Chpt 100-102
- A most malicious wag, that fellow.†
Chpt 127-129
- But as if perceiving this stratagem, Moby Dick, with that malicious intelligence ascribed to him, sidelingly transplanted himself, as it were, in an instant, shooting his pleated head lengthwise beneath the boat.†
Chpt 133-135
- There's a most special, a most cunning, oh, a most malicious difference!†
Chpt 133-135
- Yet the voice spake true; for scarce had he pushed from the ship, when numbers of sharks, seemingly rising from out the dark waters beneath the hull, maliciously snapped at the blades of the oars, every time they dipped in the water; and in this way accompanied the boat with their bites.†
Chpt 133-135
- Whether fagged by the three days' running chase, and the resistance to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was some latent deceitfulness and malice in him: whichever was true, the White Whale's way now began to abate, as it seemed, from the boat so rapidly nearing him once more; though indeed the whale's last start had not been so long a one as before.†
Chpt 133-135
- Retribution, swift vengeance, eternal malice were in his whole aspect, and spite of all that mortal man could do, the solid white buttress of his forehead smote the ship's starboard bow, till men and timbers reeled.†
Chpt 133-135
Definition:
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(malicious) wanting to see others suffer; or threatening evil