All 6 Uses of
inevitable
in
Moby Dick
- Being once pursued by a whale which he had wounded, he parried the assault for some time with a lance; but the furious monster at length rushed on the boat; himself and comrades only being preserved by leaping into the water when they saw the onset was inevitable.†
Chpt Extr
- That to attempt it, would be inevitably to be torn into a quick eternity.†
Chpt 40-42 *
- Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery.†
Chpt 55-57
- Now, this occasional inevitable sinking of the recently killed Sperm Whale is a very curious thing; nor has any fisherman yet adequately accounted for it.†
Chpt 79-81
- Such unintermitted strainings upon the planted iron must sooner or later inevitably extract it.†
Chpt 82-84
- Nor, at the time, had it failed to enter his monomaniac mind, that all the anguish of that then present suffering was but the direct issue of a former woe; and he too plainly seemed to see, that as the most poisonous reptile of the marsh perpetuates his kind as inevitably as the sweetest songster of the grove; so, equally with every felicity, all miserable events do naturally beget their like.†
Chpt 106-108
Definition:
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(inevitable) certain to happen (even if one tried to prevent it)