All 3 Uses of
sequel
in
Moby Dick
- It was but some few days after encountering the Frenchman, that a most significant event befell the most insignificant of the Pequod's crew; an event most lamentable; and which ended in providing the sometimes madly merry and predestinated craft with a living and ever accompanying prophecy of whatever shattered sequel might prove her own.†
Chpt 91-93
- The thing is common in that fishery; and in the sequel of the narrative, it will then be seen what like abandonment befell myself.†
Chpt 91-93 *
- Death seems the only desirable sequel for a career like this; but Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored; therefore, to the death-longing eyes of such men, who still have left in them some interior compunctions against suicide, does the all-contributed and all-receptive ocean alluringly spread forth his whole plain of unimaginable, taking terrors, and…†
Chpt 112-114
Definition:
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(sequel) something that follows and continues something else -- especially a film or book
or more rarely: something that follows as a result of something else