All 14 Uses of
external
in
Moby Dick
- Next: how shall we define the whale, by his obvious externals, so as conspicuously to label him for all time to come?†
Chpt 31-33
- And if you descend into the bowels of the various leviathans, why there you will not find distinctions a fiftieth part as available to the systematizer as those external ones already enumerated.†
Chpt 31-33
- …profits, not upon fixed wages, but upon their common luck, together with their common vigilance, intrepidity, and hard work; though all these things do in some cases tend to beget a less rigorous discipline than in merchantmen generally; yet, never mind how much like an old Mesopotamian family these whalemen may, in some primitive instances, live together; for all that, the punctilious externals, at least, of the quarter-deck are seldom materially relaxed, and in no instance done away.†
Chpt 31-33
- For be a man's intellectual superiority what it will, it can never assume the practical, available supremacy over other men, without the aid of some sort of external arts and entrenchments, always, in themselves, more or less paltry and base.†
Chpt 31-33
- For with little external to constrain us, the innermost necessities in our being, these still drive us on.†
Chpt 34-36 *
- By some naturalists who have vaguely heard rumors of the mysterious creature, here spoken of, it is included among the class of cuttle-fish, to which, indeed, in certain external respects it would seem to belong, but only as the Anak of the tribe.†
Chpt 58-60
- As the external difference between them is mainly observable in their heads; and as a head of each is this moment hanging from the Pequod's side; and as we may freely go from one to the other, by merely stepping across the deck:—where, I should like to know, will you obtain a better chance to study practical cetology than here?†
Chpt 73-75
- The ear has no external leaf whatever; and into the hole itself you can hardly insert a quill, so wondrously minute is it.†
Chpt 73-75
- While the ear of the former has an external opening, that of the latter is entirely and evenly covered over with a membrane, so as to be quite imperceptible from without.†
Chpt 73-75
- Again, the Right Whale has two external spout-holes, the Sperm Whale only one.†
Chpt 73-75
- Moreover you observe that the whale has no external nose; and that what nose he has—his spout hole—is on the top of his head; you observe that his eyes and ears are at the sides of his head, nearly one third of his entire length from the front.†
Chpt 76-78
- And since the nose is the central and most conspicuous of the features; and since it perhaps most modifies and finally controls their combined expression; hence it would seem that its entire absence, as an external appendage, must very largely affect the countenance of the whale.†
Chpt 79-81
- But the curious external resemblance, I take it the Germans were not the first men to perceive.†
Chpt 79-81
- There are no external chimneys; they open direct from the rear wall.†
Chpt 94-96
Definition:
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(external) outsidein various senses, including:
- coming from or existing outside a place, organization or thing -- as in "external trade"
- forming or relating to an outside boundary -- as in "external walls"
- on the surface or superficial as contrasted to something that is deep or complete -- as in "external appearances"