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Definition
break — as in break an understanding or a break (gap) in a wall
- There she breaches!Extracts (78% in)
- Again the phantom went down, but on re-appearing once more, with a stiletto-like cry that startled every man from his nod, the negro yelled out—"There! there again! there she breaches! right ahead!Chapters 58-60 -- Brit; Squid; The Line (37% in)
- 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.Chapters 85-87 -- The Fountain; The Tail; The Grand Armada (37% in)
- 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.Chapters 85-87 -- The Fountain; The Tail; The Grand Armada (80% in)
- 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."Chapters 100-102 -- The Pequod meets….; The Decanter; A Bower in the Arsacides (14% in)
- 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.Chapters 133-135 -- The Chase--First Day; The Chase--Second Day; The Chase--Third Day (42% in)
- In those moments, the torn, enraged waves he shakes off, seem his mane; in some cases, this breaching is his act of defiance.Chapters 133-135 -- The Chase--First Day; The Chase--Second Day; The Chase--Third Day (42% in)
- "There she breaches! there she breaches!" was the cry, as in his immeasurable bravadoes the White Whale tossed himself salmon-like to Heaven.Chapters 133-135 -- The Chase--First Day; The Chase--Second Day; The Chase--Third Day (42% in)
- "There she breaches! there she breaches!" was the cry, as in his immeasurable bravadoes the White Whale tossed himself salmon-like to Heaven.Chapters 133-135 -- The Chase--First Day; The Chase--Second Day; The Chase--Third Day (42% in)
- "Aye, breach your last to the sun, Moby Dick!" cried Ahab, "thy hour and thy harpoon are at hand!Chapters 133-135 -- The Chase--First Day; The Chase--Second Day; The Chase--Third Day (43% in)
- Through the breach, they heard the waters pour, as mountain torrents down a flume.Chapters 133-135 -- The Chase--First Day; The Chase--Second Day; The Chase--Third Day (94% in)
There are no more uses of "breach" in Moby Dick.
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