All 4 Uses of
temperate
in
Moby Dick
- He was such a creature as civilized, domestic people in the temperate zone only see in their dreams, and that but dimly; but the like of whom now and then glide among the unchanging Asiatic communities, especially the Oriental isles to the east of the continent—those insulated, immemorial, unalterable countries, which even in these modern days still preserve much of the ghostly aboriginalness of earth's primal generations, when the memory of the first man was a distinct recollection,…†
Chpt 49-51
- I had thought, now, that at your temperate North the generations were cold and holy as the hills.†
Chpt 52-54
- Stubb was a high liver; he was somewhat intemperately fond of the whale as a flavorish thing to his palate.†
Chpt 64-66 *
- Natural as it is to be somewhat incredulous concerning the populousness of the more enormous creatures of the globe, yet what shall we say to Harto, the historian of Goa, when he tells us that at one hunting the King of Siam took 4,000 elephants; that in those regions elephants are numerous as droves of cattle in the temperate climes.†
Chpt 103-105
Definition:
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(temperate) lacking extremes -- especially of weather, climate, or behavior