All 16 Uses of
appalling
in
Moby Dick
- Straightway, he now goes on to make a full confession; whereupon the mariners became more and more appalled, but still are pitiful.†
Chpt 7-9 *appalled = shocked by how terrible or horrible something is
- How being an anointed pilot-prophet, or speaker of true things, and bidden by the Lord to sound those unwelcome truths in the ears of a wicked Nineveh, Jonah, appalled at the hostility he should raise, fled from his mission, and sought to escape his duty and his God by taking ship at Joppa.†
Chpt 7-9
- For not only are whalemen as a body unexempt from that ignorance and superstitiousness hereditary to all sailors; but of all sailors, they are by all odds the most directly brought into contact with whatever is appallingly astonishing in the sea; face to face they not only eye its greatest marvels, but, hand to jaw, give battle to them.†
Chpt 40-42appallingly = in a manner that shocks with its terribleness or horribleness
- Gnawed within and scorched without, with the infixed, unrelenting fangs of some incurable idea; such an one, could he be found, would seem the very man to dart his iron and lift his lance against the most appalling of all brutes.†
Chpt 40-42appalling = shockingly terrible or horrible
- It was the whiteness of the whale that above all things appalled me.†
Chpt 40-42appalled = shocked by how terrible or horrible something is
- But not yet have we solved the incantation of this whiteness, and learned why it appeals with such power to the soul; and more strange and far more portentous—why, as we have seen, it is at once the most meaning symbol of spiritual things, nay, the very veil of the Christian's Deity; and yet should be as it is, the intensifying agent in things the most appalling to mankind.†
Chpt 40-42appalling = shockingly terrible or horrible
- 'The White Whale—the White Whale!' was the cry from captain, mates, and harpooneers, who, undeterred by fearful rumours, were all anxious to capture so famous and precious a fish; while the dogged crew eyed askance, and with curses, the appalling beauty of the vast milky mass, that lit up by a horizontal spangling sun, shifted and glistened like a living opal in the blue morning sea.†
Chpt 52-54
- For as this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular Tahiti, full of peace and joy, but encompassed by all the horrors of the half known life.†
Chpt 58-60
- Unappalled by the massacre made upon them during the night, the sharks now freshly and more keenly allured by the before pent blood which began to flow from the carcass—the rabid creatures swarmed round it like bees in a beehive.†
Chpt 70-72unappalled = not shocked by how terrible or horrible something isstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unappalled means not and reverses the meaning of appalled. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Here is a vital point; for you must either satisfactorily settle this matter with yourself, or for ever remain an infidel as to one of the most appalling, but not the less true events, perhaps anywhere to be found in all recorded history.†
Chpt 76-78appalling = shockingly terrible or horrible
- Who can tell how appalling to the wounded whale must have been such huge phantoms flitting over his head!†
Chpt 79-81
- On the contrary, those motions derive their most appalling beauty from it.†
Chpt 85-87
- But agonizing as was the wound of this whale, and an appalling spectacle enough, any way; yet the peculiar horror with which he seemed to inspire the rest of the herd, was owing to a cause which at first the intervening distance obscured from us.†
Chpt 85-87
- The Christian or civilized part of the crew said it was mermaids, and shuddered; but the pagan harpooneers remained unappalled.†
Chpt 124-126unappalled = not shocked by how terrible or horrible something isstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unappalled means not and reverses the meaning of appalled. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- For so revolvingly appalling was the White Whale's aspect, and so planetarily swift the ever-contracting circles he made, that he seemed horizontally swooping upon them.†
Chpt 133-135appalling = shockingly terrible or horrible
- But ere that close limit was gained, and while yet all three boats were plain as the ship's three masts to his eye; the White Whale churning himself into furious speed, almost in an instant as it were, rushing among the boats with open jaws, and a lashing tail, offered appalling battle on every side; and heedless of the irons darted at him from every boat, seemed only intent on annihilating each separate plank of which those boats were made.†
Chpt 133-135