All 13 Uses of
pious
in
Moby Dick
- How now in the contemplative evening of his days, the pious Bildad reconciled these things in the reminiscence, I do not know; but it did not seem to concern him much, and very probably he had long since come to the sage and sensible conclusion that a man's religion is one thing, and this practical world quite another.†
Chpt 16-18
- For a pious man, especially for a Quaker, he was certainly rather hard-hearted, to say the least.
Chpt 16-18 *pious = religious
- I know Captain Ahab well; I've sailed with him as mate years ago; I know what he is—a good man—not a pious, good man, like Bildad, but a swearing good man—something like me—only there's a good deal more of him.†
Chpt 16-18
- He looked at me with a sort of condescending concern and compassion, as though he thought it a great pity that such a sensible young man should be so hopelessly lost to evangelical pagan piety.†
Chpt 16-18
- "Pious harpooneers never make good voyagers—it takes the shark out of 'em; no harpooneer is worth a straw who aint pretty sharkish.†
Chpt 16-18
- "He's a lively chief mate, that; good man, and a pious; but all alive now, I must turn to."†
Chpt 19-21
- I was comforting myself, however, with the thought that in pious Bildad might be found some salvation, spite of his seven hundred and seventy-seventh lay; when I felt a sudden sharp poke in my rear, and turning round, was horrified at the apparition of Captain Peleg in the act of withdrawing his leg from my immediate vicinity.†
Chpt 22-24
- Nor can piety itself, at such a shameful sight, completely stifle her upbraidings against the permitting stars.†
Chpt 25-27
- For even the high lifted and chivalric Crusaders of old times were not content to traverse two thousand miles of land to fight for their holy sepulchre, without committing burglaries, picking pockets, and gaining other pious perquisites by the way.†
Chpt 46-48
- The sea-vultures all in pious mourning, the air-sharks all punctiliously in black or speckled.†
Chpt 67-69
- In life but few of them would have helped the whale, I ween, if peradventure he had needed it; but upon the banquet of his funeral they most piously do pounce.†
Chpt 67-69
- Gently he insinuates his vast bulk among them again and revels there awhile, still in tantalizing vicinity to young Lothario, like pious Solomon devoutly worshipping among his thousand concubines.†
Chpt 88-90
- Who ever heard of two pious whale-ships cruising after one missing whale-boat in the height of the whaling season?†
Chpt 127-129
Definition:
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(pious as in: a good, pious woman) religious or highly moral