All 14 Uses
repose
in
Moby Dick
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- Some considering touch of humanity was in him; for at times like these, he usually abstained from patrolling the quarter-deck; because to his wearied mates, seeking repose within six inches of his ivory heel, such would have been the reverberating crack and din of that bony step, that their dreams would have been on the crunching teeth of sharks.†
Chpt 28-30
- As for the white shark, the white gliding ghostliness of repose in that creature, when beheld in his ordinary moods, strangely tallies with the same quality in the Polar quadruped.†
Chpt 40-42
- It was in the midst of this repose, that Archy, one of the cordon, whose post was near the after-hatches, whispered to his neighbor, a Cholo, the words above.†
Chpt 43-45
- Even when wearied nature seemed demanding repose he would not seek that repose in his hammock.†
Chpt 49-51
- Even when wearied nature seemed demanding repose he would not seek that repose in his hammock.†
Chpt 49-51
- The effect is very fine, when considered with reference to its presenting the hardy fishermen under one of their few aspects of oriental repose.†
Chpt 55-57
- Whether the flitting attendance of the one still and solitary jet had gradually worked upon Ahab, so that he was now prepared to connect the ideas of mildness and repose with the first sight of the particular whale he pursued; however this was, or whether his eagerness betrayed him; whichever way it might have been, no sooner did he distinctly perceive the white mass, than with a quick intensity he instantly gave orders for lowering.†
Chpt 58-60
- Again: as the profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of the storm, is perhaps more awful than the storm itself; for, indeed, the calm is but the wrapper and envelope of the storm; and contains it in itself, as the seemingly harmless rifle holds the fatal powder, and the ball, and the explosion; so the graceful repose of the line, as it silently serpentines about the oarsmen before being brought into actual play—this is a thing which carries more of true terror than any other aspect of this dangerous affair.†
Chpt 58-60
- It is customary to have two harpoons reposing in the crotch, respectively called the first and second irons.†
Chpt 61-63 *reposing = resting or lying
- In the repose of the pasture, the curled brow of the bull has a touch of the grand in it.†
Chpt 79-81
- At the high end the skull forms a crater to bed that part of the mass; while under the long floor of this crater—in another cavity seldom exceeding ten inches in length and as many in depth—reposes the mere handful of this monster's brain.†
Chpt 79-81reposes = rests or lays
- Owing to the density of the crowd of reposing whales, more immediately surrounding the embayed axis of the herd, no possible chance of escape was at present afforded us.†
Chpt 85-87reposing = resting or lying
- There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, and at the last one pause:—through infancy's unconscious spell, boyhood's thoughtless faith, adolescence' doubt (the common doom), then scepticism, then disbelief, resting at last in manhood's pondering repose of If.†
Chpt 112-114
- A gentle joyousness—a mighty mildness of repose in swiftness, invested the gliding whale.†
Chpt 133-135
Definitions:
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(1)
(repose as in: repose on the sofa) to rest or lie
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Repose can also mean to put something (e.g., trust) in someone or something.