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exceedingly cowardly; or someone who is exceedingly cowardly
- For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land!Chapters 22-24 -- Merry Christmas; The Lee Shore; The Advocate (53% in)
- A happy-go-lucky; neither craven nor valiant; taking perils as they came with an indifferent air; and while engaged in the most imminent crisis of the chase, toiling away, calm and collected as a journeyman joiner engaged for the year.Chapters 25-27 -- Postscript; Knights and Squires; Knights and Squires (49% in)
- But thou sayest, methinks that white-lead chapter about whiteness is but a white flag hung out from a craven soul; thou surrenderest to a hypo, Ishmael.Chapters 40-42 -- Midnight, Forecastle; Moby Dick; The Whiteness of the Whale (93% in)
- Accursed fate! that the unconquerable captain in the soul should have such a craven mate!Chapters 133-135 -- The Chase--First Day; The Chase--Second Day; The Chase--Third Day (54% in)
There are no more uses of "craven" in Moby Dick.
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