All 13 Uses of
wane
in
Moby Dick
- But all the witcheries of that unwaning weather did not merely lend new spells and potencies to the outward world.†
Chpt 28-30
- Now, with the subordinate phantoms, what wonder remained soon waned away; for in a whaler wonders soon wane.†
Chpt 49-51
- Now, with the subordinate phantoms, what wonder remained soon waned away; for in a whaler wonders soon wane.†
Chpt 49-51
- " 'Well for our northern friend, Dame Isabella's Inquisition wanes in Lima,' laughed Don Sebastian.†
Chpt 52-54
- "Pull up—pull up!" he now cried to the bowsman, as the waning whale relaxed in his wrath.†
Chpt 61-63 *
- For, by this time, so spent was he by loss of blood, that he helplessly rolled away from the wreck he had made; lay panting on his side, impotently flapped with his stumped fin, then over and over slowly revolved like a waning world; turned up the white secrets of his belly; lay like a log, and died.†
Chpt 79-81
- It had been next to impossible to dart these drugged-harpoons, were it not that as we advanced into the herd, our whale's way greatly diminished; moreover, that as we went still further and further from the circumference of commotion, the direful disorders seemed waning.†
Chpt 85-87
- But even so, amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute calm; and while ponderous planets of unwaning woe revolve round me, deep down and deep inland there I still bathe me in eternal mildness of joy.†
Chpt 85-87
- So this bright coin came from a country planted in the middle of the world, and beneath the great equator, and named after it; and it had been cast midway up the Andes, in the unwaning clime that knows no autumn.†
Chpt 97-99
- An awe that cannot be named would steal over you as you sat by the side of this waning savage, and saw as strange things in his face, as any beheld who were bystanders when Zoroaster died.†
Chpt 109-111
- Soothed again, but only soothed to deeper gloom, Ahab, who had sterned off from the whale, sat intently watching his final wanings from the now tranquil boat.†
Chpt 115-117
- I have sat before the dense coal fire and watched it all aglow, full of its tormented flaming life; and I have seen it wane at last, down, down, to dumbest dust.†
Chpt 118-120
- The tableau all waned at last with the pallidness aloft; and once more the Pequod and every soul on her decks were wrapped in a pall.†
Chpt 118-120
Definition:
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(wane) a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) -- especially the part of the moon that is visible