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Parental discretion advised
Definition
good judgment or good taste
- How could he forget that in his Island days, Queequeg, for one, must certainly have been guilty of some murderous, convivial indiscretions.Chapters 34-36 -- The Cabin-Table; The Mast-Head; The Qarter-Deck--Ahab and all (25% in)
There are no more uses of "discretion" flagged with this meaning in Moby Dick.
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- The fetid closeness of the air, and a famishing diet, united perhaps to some fears of ultimate retribution, had constrained them to surrender at discretion.Chapters 52-54 -- The Albatross; The Gam; The Town-Ho's Story (69% in)
- I suppose then, that going plump on a flying whale with your sail set in a foggy squall is the height of a whaleman's discretion?"Chapters 49-51 -- The Hyena; Ahab's Boat and Crew - Fedallah; The Spirit-Spout (11% in)
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