All 5 Uses of
mane
in
Moby Dick
- Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion on the white coral beach, surrounded by his warlike but still deferential cubs.†
Chpt 34-36
- The flashing cascade of his mane, the curving comet of his tail, invested him with housings more resplendent than gold and silver-beaters could have furnished him.†
Chpt 40-42 *
- Though banding together in tens of thousands, the lion-maned buffaloes of the West have fled before a solitary horseman.†
Chpt 85-87
- Comparing the humped herds of whales with the humped herds of buffalo, which, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois and Missouri, and shook their iron manes and scowled with their thunder-clotted brows upon the sites of populous river-capitals, where now the polite broker sells you land at a dollar an inch; in such a comparison an irresistible argument would seem furnished, to show that the hunted whale cannot now escape speedy extinction.†
Chpt 103-105
- In those moments, the torn, enraged waves he shakes off, seem his mane; in some cases, this breaching is his act of defiance.†
Chpt 133-135
Definition:
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(mane) long coarse hair such as that which grows around a lion's head or on the back of a horse's neck