All 3 Uses of
quiescent
in
Moby Dick
- They may scorn cash now; but let some months go by, and no prospective promise of it to them, and then this same quiescent cash all at once mutinying in them, this same cash would soon cashier Ahab.†
Chpt 46-48
- If moody Ahab was now all quiescence, at least so far as could be known on deck, Stubb, his second mate, flushed with conquest, betrayed an unusual but still good-natured excitement.†
Chpt 64-66 *
- Diving beneath the settling ship, the whale ran quivering along its keel; but turning under water, swiftly shot to the surface again, far off the other bow, but within a few yards of Ahab's boat, where, for a time, he lay quiescent.†
Chpt 133-135
Definition:
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(quiescent) being quiet or still or inactive for the time being
or in medicine: causing no symptoms