All 11 Uses of
breach
in
Moby Dick
- There she breaches!†
Chpt Extr *breaches = breaks or penetrates
- there she breaches!†
Chpt 58-60
- Presently up breaches from the bottom of the sea a bouncing great whale, with a milky-white head and hump, all crows' feet and wrinkles.†
Chpt 100-102
- For not by any calm and indolent spoutings; not by the peaceable gush of that mystic fountain in his head, did the White Whale now reveal his vicinity; but by the far more wondrous phenomenon of breaching.†
Chpt 133-135breaching = breaking or penetrating
- In those moments, the torn, enraged waves he shakes off, seem his mane; in some cases, this breaching is his act of defiance.†
Chpt 133-135
- There she breaches!†
Chpt 133-135breaches = breaks or penetrates
- there she breaches!" was the cry, as in his immeasurable bravadoes the White Whale tossed himself salmon-like to Heaven.†
Chpt 133-135
- Excepting the sublime BREACH—somewhere else to be described—this peaking of the whale's flukes is perhaps the grandest sight to be seen in all animated nature.†
Chpt 85-87
- We must watch for a breach in the living wall that hemmed us in; the wall that had only admitted us in order to shut us up.†
Chpt 85-87
- "Aye, breach your last to the sun, Moby Dick!" cried Ahab, "thy hour and thy harpoon are at hand!†
Chpt 133-135
- Through the breach, they heard the waters pour, as mountain torrents down a flume.†
Chpt 133-135
Definitions:
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(1)
(breach) break or failure
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
A less common meaning of breach is the rising and breaking out of the water by a whale.