All 8 Uses of
sustain
in
Moby Dick
- The three mates quailed before his strong, sustained, and mystic aspect.†
Chpt 34-36
- But the sight of little Flask mounted upon gigantic Daggoo was yet more curious; for sustaining himself with a cool, indifferent, easy, unthought of, barbaric majesty, the noble negro to every roll of the sea harmoniously rolled his fine form.†
Chpt 46-48
- But one cannot sustain an indifferent air concerning Fedallah.†
Chpt 49-51
- And often you will notice that being conscious of the eyes of the whole visible world resting on him from the sides of the two ships, this standing captain is all alive to the importance of sustaining his dignity by maintaining his legs.†
Chpt 52-54 *
- Subject to this, and other the like interruptions now and then, a conversation was sustained between the two parties; but at intervals not without still another interruption of a very different sort.†
Chpt 70-72
- The timbers beneath are of a peculiar strength, fitted to sustain the weight of an almost solid mass of brick and mortar, some ten feet by eight square, and five in height.†
Chpt 94-96
- As the unsetting polar star, which through the livelong, arctic, six months' night sustains its piercing, steady, central gaze; so Ahab's purpose now fixedly gleamed down upon the constant midnight of the gloomy crew.†
Chpt 130-132
- When in working with his hands at some lofty almost isolated place in the rigging, which chances to afford no foothold, the sailor at sea is hoisted up to that spot, and sustained there by the rope; under these circumstances, its fastened end on deck is always given in strict charge to some one man who has the special watch of it.†
Chpt 130-132
Definition:
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(sustain as in: sustained by her faith) provide support or necessities