All 14 Uses of
resume
in
Moby Dick
- But being in a great hurry to resume scolding the man in the purple Shirt, who was waiting for it in the entry, and seeming to hear nothing but the word "clam," Mrs. Hussey hurried towards an open door leading to the kitchen, and bawling out "clam for two," disappeared.†
Chpt 13-15
- Stepping to the kitchen door, I uttered the word "cod" with great emphasis, and resumed my seat.†
Chpt 13-15 *
- We resumed business; and while plying our spoons in the bowl, thinks I to myself, I wonder now if this here has any effect on the head?†
Chpt 13-15
- When the entire ship's company were assembled, and with curious and not wholly unapprehensive faces, were eyeing him, for he looked not unlike the weather horizon when a storm is coming up, Ahab, after rapidly glancing over the bulwarks, and then darting his eyes among the crew, started from his standpoint; and as though not a soul were nigh him resumed his heavy turns upon the deck.†
Chpt 34-36
- "It's a white whale, I say," resumed Ahab, as he threw down the topmaul: "a white whale.†
Chpt 34-36
- Often, when forced from his hammock by exhausting and intolerably vivid dreams of the night, which, resuming his own intense thoughts through the day, carried them on amid a clashing of phrensies, and whirled them round and round and round in his blazing brain, till the very throbbing of his life-spot became insufferable anguish; and when, as was sometimes the case, these spiritual throes in him heaved his being up from its base, and a chasm seemed opening in him, from which forked…†
Chpt 43-45
- He was in Radney the chief mate's watch; and as if the infatuated man sought to run more than half way to meet his doom, after the scene at the rigging, he insisted, against the express counsel of the captain, upon resuming the head of his watch at night.†
Chpt 52-54
- Chartering a small native schooner, he returned with them to his vessel; and finding all right there, again resumed his cruisings.†
Chpt 52-54
- "Now, cook," said Stubb, resuming his supper at the capstan; "stand just where you stood before, there, over against me, and pay particular attention."†
Chpt 64-66
- The heavers forward now resume their song, and while the one tackle is peeling and hoisting a second strip from the whale, the other is slowly slackened away, and down goes the first strip through the main hatchway right beneath, into an unfurnished parlor called the blubber-room.†
Chpt 67-69
- As, after this interlude, the seamen resumed their work upon the jacket of the whale, many strange things were hinted in reference to this wild affair.†
Chpt 70-72
- When he halted before the binnacle, with his glance fastened on the pointed needle in the compass, that glance shot like a javelin with the pointed intensity of his purpose; and when resuming his walk he again paused before the mainmast, then, as the same riveted glance fastened upon the riveted gold coin there, he still wore the same aspect of nailed firmness, only dashed with a certain wild longing, if not hopefulness.†
Chpt 97-99
- CARPENTER (RESUMING HIS WORK).†
Chpt 106-108
- But soon resuming his horizontal attitude, Moby Dick swam swiftly round and round the wrecked crew; sideways churning the water in his vengeful wake, as if lashing himself up to still another and more deadly assault.†
Chpt 133-135
Definition:
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(resume) begin or take on again