Both Uses of
inestimable
in
Moby Dick
- Just so with the head; but with this difference: about the head this envelope, though not so thick, is of a boneless toughness, inestimable by any man who has not handled it.†
Chpt 76-78 *
- I could not endure the sight; could not possibly fly his howlings; all comfort, sleep itself, inestimable reason would leave me on the long intolerable voyage.†
Chpt 121-123
Definition:
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(inestimable) too great to be calculated or measured