All 5 Uses of
procure
in
Moby Dick
- So saying he procured the plane; and with his old silk handkerchief first dusting the bench, vigorously set to planing away at my bed, the while grinning like an ape.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- After taking counsel with his officers, he anchored the ship as far off shore as possible; loaded and ran out his two cannon from the bows; stacked his muskets on the poop; and warning the Islanders not to approach the ship at their peril, took one man with him, and setting the sail of his best whale-boat, steered straight before the wind for Tahiti, five hundred miles distant, to procure a reinforcement to his crew.†
Chpt 52-54
- " 'Nay,' said Don Sebastian; 'but I know a worthy priest near by, who will quickly procure one for me.†
Chpt 52-54
- Excuse me for running after you, Don Sebastian; but may I also beg that you will be particular in procuring the largest sized Evangelists you can.†
Chpt 52-54
- I mean no disparagement to the excellent voyager (I honour him for a veteran), but in so important a matter it was certainly an oversight not to have procured for every crystal a sworn affidavit taken before a Greenland Justice of the Peace.†
Chpt 55-57
Definition:
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(procure) get by special effort