All 9 Uses of
seethe
in
Moby Dick
- The great Leviathan that maketh the seas to seethe like boiling pan.†
Chpt Extr *
- He goes down in the whirling heart of such a masterless commotion that he scarce heeds the moment when he drops seething into the yawning jaws awaiting him; and the whale shoots-to all his ivory teeth, like so many white bolts, upon his prison.†
Chpt 7-9
- seethe her, seethe her, my lads!†
Chpt 46-48
- seethe her, seethe her, my lads!†
Chpt 46-48
- It was while gliding through these latter waters that one serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver; and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery silence, not a solitude; on such a silent night a silvery jet was seen far in advance of the white bubbles at the bow.†
Chpt 49-51
- As morning mowers, who side by side slowly and seethingly advance their scythes through the long wet grass of marshy meads; even so these monsters swam, making a strange, grassy, cutting sound; and leaving behind them endless swaths of blue upon the yellow sea.†
Chpt 58-60
- His tormented body rolled not in brine but in blood, which bubbled and seethed for furlongs behind in their wake.†
Chpt 61-63
- But that instant a headlong wave shot the boat far ahead, and its seethings drowned all speech.†
Chpt 70-72
- To sailors, oaths are household words; they will swear in the trance of the calm, and in the teeth of the tempest; they will imprecate curses from the topsail-yard-arms, when most they teeter over to a seething sea; but in all my voyagings, seldom have I heard a common oath when God's burning finger has been laid on the ship; when His "Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin" has been woven into the shrouds and the cordage.†
Chpt 118-120
Definition:
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(seethe as in: seething with anger) to be angry -- especially when holding the anger within
or:
to move vigorously in-place -- such as boiling water, an agitated crowd, or a basket of writhing (squirming) snakes