Both Uses of
rapacious
in
Moby Dick
- Slowly it floats more and more away, the water round it torn and splashed by the insatiate sharks, and the air above vexed with rapacious flights of screaming fowls, whose beaks are like so many insulting poniards in the whale.†
Chpt 67-69 *
- What to the rapacious landlord is the widow's last mite but a Fast-Fish?†
Chpt 88-90
Definition:
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(rapacious as in: a rapacious cartel) excessively greedy -- often destructive