Both Uses of
strife
in
Moby Dick
- But once Tashtego's senior, an old Gay-Head Indian among the crew, superstitiously asserted that not till he was full forty years old did Ahab become that way branded, and then it came upon him, not in the fury of any mortal fray, but in an elemental strife at sea.†
Chpt 28-30
- Why this strife of the chase? why weary, and palsy the arm at the oar, and the iron, and the lance? how the richer or better is Ahab now?†
Chpt 130-132 *
Definition:
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(strife) violent conflict or angry disagreement