All 5 Uses of
vengeful
in
Moby Dick
- These temporary apprehensions, so vague but so awful, derived a wondrous potency from the contrasting serenity of the weather, in which, beneath all its blue blandness, some thought there lurked a devilish charm, as for days and days we voyaged along, through seas so wearily, lonesomely mild, that all space, in repugnance to our vengeful errand, seemed vacating itself of life before our urn-like prow.†
Chpt 49-51
- And for Radney, though in his infancy he may have laid him down on the lone Nantucket beach, to nurse at his maternal sea; though in after life he had long followed our austere Atlantic and your contemplative Pacific; yet was he quite as vengeful and full of social quarrel as the backwoods seaman, fresh from the latitudes of buck-horn handled bowie-knives.†
Chpt 52-54
- Desecrated as the body is, a vengeful ghost survives and hovers over it to scare.†
Chpt 67-69 *
- The burning ship drove on, as if remorselessly commissioned to some vengeful deed.†
Chpt 94-96
- 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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(vengeful) wanting to punish someone for causing harm