All 6 Uses of
inquiry
in
Moby Dick
- On one side hung a very large oilpainting so thoroughly besmoked, and every way defaced, that in the unequal crosslights by which you viewed it, it was only by diligent study and a series of systematic visits to it, and careful inquiry of the neighbors, that you could any way arrive at an understanding of its purpose.†
Chpt 1-3
- After much prolonged sauntering and many random inquiries, I learnt that there were three ships up for three-years' voyages—The Devil-dam, the Tit-bit, and the Pequod.†
Chpt 16-18
- It is not my intention, were it in my power, to enter into the inquiry as to the true method of dividing the cetacea into groups and families….†
Chpt 31-33 *
- In vain it was to rake for Ambergriese in the paunch of this Leviathan, insufferable fetor denying not inquiry.†
Chpt 91-93
- But still another inquiry remains; one often agitated by the more recondite Nantucketers.†
Chpt 103-105
- He called one to him in the grey morning watch, when the day was just breaking, and taking his hand, said that while in Nantucket he had chanced to see certain little canoes of dark wood, like the rich war-wood of his native isle; and upon inquiry, he had learned that all whalemen who died in Nantucket, were laid in those same dark canoes, and that the fancy of being so laid had much pleased him; for it was not unlike the custom of his own race, who, after embalming a dead warrior,…†
Chpt 109-111
Definition:
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(inquiry) the act of asking a question or performing an investigation