All 5 Uses of
revelry
in
Moby Dick
- When the revelry of his companions had mounted to its height, this man slipped away unobserved, and I saw no more of him till he became my comrade on the sea.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- Like one who after a night of drunken revelry hies to his bed, still reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race-horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; as one who in that miserable plight still turns and turns in giddy anguish, praying God for annihilation until the fit be passed; and at last amid the whirl of woe he feels, a deep stupor steals over him, as over the man who bleeds to death, for conscience is the wound, and…†
Chpt 7-9
- [A BURST OF REVELRY FROM THE FORECASTLE.†
Chpt 37-39
- Hark! the infernal orgies! that revelry is forward! mark the unfaltering silence aft!†
Chpt 37-39
- And thus, while the one ship went cheerily before the breeze, the other stubbornly fought against it; and so the two vessels parted; the crew of the Pequod looking with grave, lingering glances towards the receding Bachelor; but the Bachelor's men never heeding their gaze for the lively revelry they were in.†
Chpt 115-117
Definition:
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(revelry) a party -- especially a noisy one
or:
to party or celebrate -- especially in a noisy way