All 4 Uses of
torrent
in
Moby Dick
- A confluent small-pox had in all directions flowed over his face, and left it like the complicated ribbed bed of a torrent, when the rushing waters have been dried up.†
Chpt 19-21
- Over unsounded gorges, through the rifled hearts of mountains, under torrents' beds, unerringly I rush!†
Chpt 37-39 *torrents = overwhelming amounts
- So that when at last the jerking harpoon drew out, and the towing whale sideways vanished; then, with the tapering force of his parting momentum, we glided between two whales into the innermost heart of the shoal, as if from some mountain torrent we had slid into a serene valley lake.†
Chpt 85-87
- Through the breach, they heard the waters pour, as mountain torrents down a flume.†
Chpt 133-135torrents = overwhelming amounts
Definition:
an overwhelming amount -- especially of quickly moving water