All 5 Uses of
suffuse
in
Moby Dick
- To a landsman, no whale, nor any sign of a herring, would have been visible at that moment; nothing but a troubled bit of greenish white water, and thin scattered puffs of vapour hovering over it, and suffusingly blowing off to leeward, like the confused scud from white rolling billows.†
Chpt 46-48
- Soon we were running through a suffusing wide veil of mist; neither ship nor boat to be seen.†
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
- One day the planks stream with freshets of blood and oil; on the sacred quarter-deck enormous masses of the whale's head are profanely piled; great rusty casks lie about, as in a brewery yard; the smoke from the try-works has besooted all the bulwarks; the mariners go about suffused with unctuousness; the entire ship seems great leviathan himself; while on all hands the din is deafening.†
Chpt 97-99
- There is some unsuffusing thing beyond thee, thou clear spirit, to whom all thy eternity is but time, all thy creativeness mechanical.†
Chpt 118-120
Definition:
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(suffuse) cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across;
or: to become overspread as with a fluid, a color, a gleam of light