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beyond normal limits
- He never used to swear, though, at his men, they said; but somehow he got an inordinate quantity of cruel, unmitigated hard work out of them.Chapters 16-18 -- The Ship; The Ramadan; His Mark (33% in)
- ...towards night-fall; for I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, never mind how comical, and could not find it in my heart to undervalue even a congregation of ants worshipping a toad-stool; or those other creatures in certain parts of our earth, who with a degree of footmanism quite unprecedented in other planets, bow down before the torso of a deceased landed proprietor merely on account of the inordinate possessions yet owned and rented in his name.Chapters 16-18 -- The Ship; The Ramadan; His Mark (61% in)
- ...sprinkled over the entire watery circumference, many of them adventurously pushing their quest along solitary latitudes, so as seldom or never for a whole twelvemonth or more on a stretch, to encounter a single news-telling sail of any sort; the inordinate length of each separate voyage; the irregularity of the times of sailing from home; all these, with other circumstances, direct and indirect, long obstructed the spread through the whole world-wide whaling-fleet of the special...Chapters 40-42 -- Midnight, Forecastle; Moby Dick; The Whiteness of the Whale (20% in)
There are no more uses of "inordinate" in Moby Dick.
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