Both Uses of
prostrate
in
Moby Dick
- As strange misgrown masses gather in the knot-holes of the noblest oaks when prostrate, so from the points which the whale's eyes had once occupied, now protruded blind bulbs, horribly pitiable to see.†
Chpt 79-81 *
- But this intensity of his physical prostration did but so much the more abbreviate it.†
Chpt 133-135
Definition:
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(prostrate) lying down - typically face downward on the ground as in submission