All 11 Uses of
convey
in
Moby Dick
- As with all sinners among men, the sin of this son of Amittai was in his wilful disobedience of the command of God—never mind now what that command was, or how conveyed—which he found a hard command.
Chpt 7-9 (definition 1)conveyed = communicated or expressed
- To those who have not chanced specially to study the subject, it may possibly seem strange, that fishes not commonly exceeding four or five feet should be marshalled among WHALES—a word, which, in the popular sense, always conveys an idea of hugeness.
Chpt 31-33 (definition 1)conveys = communicates or expresses
- Second: To the native Indian of Peru, the continual sight of the snow-howdahed Andes conveys naught of dread, except, perhaps, in the mere fancying of the eternal frosted desolateness reigning at such vast altitudes, and the natural conceit of what a fearfulness it would be to lose oneself in such inhuman solitudes.
Chpt 40-42 (definition 1)
- Again, it is very often observed that, if the sperm whale, once struck, is allowed time to rally, he then acts, not so often with blind rage, as with wilful, deliberate designs of destruction to his pursuers; nor is it without conveying some eloquent indication of his character, that upon being attacked he will frequently open his mouth, and retain it in that dread expansion for several consecutive minutes.
Chpt 43-45 (definition 1)conveying = communicating or expressing
- There seemed but little in the words, but the tone conveyed more of deep helpless sadness than the insane old man had ever before evinced.
Chpt 52-54 (definition 1)conveyed = communicated or expressed
- Though Jeremy Bentham's skeleton, which hangs for candelabra in the library of one of his executors, correctly conveys the idea of a burly-browed utilitarian old gentleman, with all Jeremy's other leading personal characteristics; yet nothing of this kind could be inferred from any leviathan's articulated bones.
Chpt 55-57 (definition 1)conveys = communicates or expresses
- Of the Right Whale, the best outline pictures are in Scoresby; but they are drawn on too small a scale to convey a desirable impression.
Chpt 55-57 (definition 1)convey = communicate or express
- With not one tenth of England's experience in the fishery, and not the thousandth part of that of the Americans, they have nevertheless furnished both nations with the only finished sketches at all capable of conveying the real spirit of the whale hunt.
Chpt 55-57 (definition 1)conveying = communicating or expressing
- Now, the spouting canal of the Sperm Whale, chiefly intended as it is for the conveyance of air, and for several feet laid along, horizontally, just beneath the upper surface of his head, and a little to one side; this curious canal is very much like a gas-pipe laid down in a city on one side of a street.
Chpt 85-87 (definition 2) *conveyance = transport
- So that this rib only conveyed half of the true notion of the living magnitude of that part.
Chpt 103-105 (definition 1) *conveyed = communicated or expressed
- For that strange spectacle observable in all sperm whales dying—the turning sunwards of the head, and so expiring—that strange spectacle, beheld of such a placid evening, somehow to Ahab conveyed a wondrousness unknown before.
Chpt 115-117 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (convey as in: convey her thoughts) communicate or express
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(2) (convey as in: convey her safely to) transporteditor's notes: Today, this sense of convey is seldom seen outside of historic literature.