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Moby Dick
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- Good-humored, easy, and careless, he presided over his whale-boat as if the most deadly encounter were but a dinner, and his crew all invited guests.†
Chpt 25-27presided = chaired; or headed; or was in charge
- But he who in the rightly regal and intelligent spirit presides over his own private dinner-table of invited guests, that man's unchallenged power and dominion of individual influence for the time; that man's royalty of state transcends Belshazzar's, for Belshazzar was not the greatest.†
Chpt 34-36presides = is in charge; or heads; or chairs
- Over his ivory-inlaid table, Ahab presided like a mute, maned sea-lion on the white coral beach, surrounded by his warlike but still deferential cubs.†
Chpt 34-36presided = chaired; or headed; or was in charge
- For could the sun do that, then could I do the other; since there is ever a sort of fair play herein, jealousy presiding over all creations.†
Chpt 34-36 *presiding = in charge (with highest authority); or heads; or chairs
- When Brahma, or the God of Gods, saith the Shaster, resolved to recreate the world after one of its periodical dissolutions, he gave birth to Vishnoo, to preside over the work; but the Vedas, or mystical books, whose perusal would seem to have been indispensable to Vishnoo before beginning the creation, and which therefore must have contained something in the shape of practical hints to young architects, these Vedas were lying at the bottom of the waters; so Vishnoo became incarnate in a whale, and sounding down in him to the uttermost depths, rescued the sacred volumes.†
Chpt 82-84preside = be in charge; or head; or chair
- On the quarter-deck, the mates and harpooneers were dancing with the olive-hued girls who had eloped with them from the Polynesian Isles; while suspended in an ornamented boat, firmly secured aloft between the foremast and mainmast, three Long Island negroes, with glittering fiddle-bows of whale ivory, were presiding over the hilarious jig.†
Chpt 115-117presiding = in charge (with highest authority); or heads; or chairs
Definitions:
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(1)
(preside) to lead or be in charge of a meeting, event, or group -- especially in an official or formal role
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)