All 6 Uses of
elapse
in
Moby Dick
- I lay there dismally calculating that sixteen entire hours must elapse before I could hope for a resurrection.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- Some days elapsed, and ice and icebergs all astern, the Pequod now went rolling through the bright Quito spring, which, at sea, almost perpetually reigns on the threshold of the eternal August of the Tropic.†
Chpt 28-30
- It might be that a long interval would elapse ere the White Whale was seen.†
Chpt 46-48
- After the full interval of his sounding had elapsed, the whale rose again, and being now in advance of the smoker's boat, and much nearer to it than to any of the others, Stubb counted upon the honour of the capture.†
Chpt 61-63
- A short space elapsed, and up into this noiselessness came Ahab alone from his cabin.†
Chpt 70-72
- So that, through their zeal for him, they had all conspired, so far as in them lay, to muffle up the knowledge of this thing from others; and hence it was, that not till a considerable interval had elapsed, did it transpire upon the Pequod's decks.†
Chpt 106-108
Definition:
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(elapse) of time: to pass by