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Definition
strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage
- There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate, unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and fearless, forward dedication of that glance.Chapters 28-30 — Ahab; (Enter Ahab; to Him, Stubb); The Pipe (36% in)
- Yet, for all his hardy sobriety and fortitude, there were certain qualities in him which at times affected, and in some cases seemed well nigh to overbalance all the rest.Chapters 25-27 — Postscript; Knights and Squires; Knights and Squires (17% in)
- But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to write it; for it is a thing most sorrowful, nay shocking, to expose the fall of valour in the soul.Chapters 25-27 — Postscript; Knights and Squires; Knights and Squires (35% in)
- But at length, such calamities did ensue in these assaults—not restricted to sprained wrists and ankles, broken limbs, or devouring amputations—but fatal to the last degree of fatality; those repeated disastrous repulses, all accumulating and piling their terrors upon Moby Dick; those things had gone far to shake the fortitude of many brave hunters, to whom the story of the White Whale had eventually come.Chapters 40-42 — Midnight, Forecastle; Moby Dick; The Whiteness of the Whale (23% in)
- Stubb saw him pause; and perhaps intending, not vainly, though, to evince his own unabated fortitude, and thus keep up a valiant place in his Captain's mind, he advanced, and eyeing the wreck exclaimed—"The thistle the ass refused; it pricked his mouth too keenly, sir; ha! ha!"Chapters 133-135 — The Chase—First Day; The Chase—Second Day; The Chase—Third Day (28% in)
There are no more uses of "fortitude" in Moby Dick.
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