All 6 Uses of
portent
in
Moby Dick
- Outward portents and inward presentiments were his.†
Chpt 25-27 *
- So that overawed by the rumors and portents concerning him, not a few of the fishermen recalled, in reference to Moby Dick, the earlier days of the Sperm Whale fishery, when it was oftentimes hard to induce long practised Right whalemen to embark in the perils of this new and daring warfare; such men protesting that although other leviathans might be hopefully pursued, yet to chase and point lance at such an apparition as the Sperm Whale was not for mortal man.†
Chpt 40-42
- If to Starbuck the apparition of the Squid was a thing of portents, to Queequeg it was quite a different object.†
Chpt 61-63
- OH-YE-HO, CHEERLY MEN!" the crew singing for joy, that so promising an event should so soon have falsified the evil portents preceding it.†
Chpt 121-123
- Besides, the old man well knew that to steer by transpointed needles, though clumsily practicable, was not a thing to be passed over by superstitious sailors, without some shudderings and evil portents.†
Chpt 124-126
- Indeed, in some sort, they were not grieved at this event, at least as a portent; for they regarded it, not as a foreshadowing of evil in the future, but as the fulfilment of an evil already presaged.†
Chpt 124-126
Definition:
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(portent) a sign of something about to happen