All 3 Uses of
scrutiny
in
Moby Dick
- Though none of the most elegant, it yet stood the scrutiny tolerably well.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- Thus far the busy Captain had not looked up to Jonah, though the man now stands before him; but no sooner does he hear that hollow voice, than he darts a scrutinizing glance.†
Chpt 7-9
- Such an enterprise would seem almost as hopeful as for Lavater to have scrutinized the wrinkles on the Rock of Gibraltar, or for Gall to have mounted a ladder and manipulated the Dome of the Pantheon.†
Chpt 79-81
Definition:
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(scrutiny) careful examination of something