All 10 Uses of
inquire
in
Moby Dick
- With anxious grapnels I had sounded my pocket, and only brought up a few pieces of silver,—So, wherever you go, Ishmael, said I to myself, as I stood in the middle of a dreary street shouldering my bag, and comparing the gloom towards the north with the darkness towards the south—wherever in your wisdom you may conclude to lodge for the night, my dear Ishmael, be sure to inquire the price, and don't be too particular.†
Chpt 1-3
- However, by dint of beating about a little in the dark, and now and then knocking up a peaceable inhabitant to inquire the way, we at last came to something which there was no mistaking.†
Chpt 13-15
- As if long habituated to such profane talk from his old shipmate, Bildad, without noticing his present irreverence, quietly looked up, and seeing me, glanced again inquiringly towards Peleg.†
Chpt 16-18
- Turning back I accosted Captain Peleg, inquiring where Captain Ahab was to be found.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- Mayhew having concluded his narration, Ahab put such questions to him, that the stranger captain could not forbear inquiring whether he intended to hunt the White Whale, if opportunity should offer.†
Chpt 70-72
- Why, they say as how he went a sauntering into the old flag-ship once, switching his tail about devilish easy and gentlemanlike, and inquiring if the old governor was at home.†
Chpt 73-75
- We must needs inquire then on what principle the Sovereign is originally invested with that right.†
Chpt 88-90
- Inasmuch, then, as this Leviathan comes floundering down upon us from the head-waters of the Eternities, it may be fitly inquired, whether, in the long course of his generations, he has not degenerated from the original bulk of his sires.†
Chpt 103-105
- When the last nail was driven, and the lid duly planed and fitted, he lightly shouldered the coffin and went forward with it, inquiring whether they were ready for it yet in that direction.†
Chpt 109-111
- The dead, blind wall butts all inquiring heads at last.†
Chpt 124-126
Definition:
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(inquire) to ask about or look into something