All 15 Uses of
tumult
in
Moby Dick
- But now when the boatswain calls all hands to lighten her; when boxes, bales, and jars are clattering overboard; when the wind is shrieking, and the men are yelling, and every plank thunders with trampling feet right over Jonah's head; in all this raging tumult, Jonah sleeps his hideous sleep.†
Chpt 7-9
- And what with the standing spectacle of the black terrific Ahab, and the periodical tumultuous visitations of these three savages, Dough-Boy's whole life was one continual lip-quiver.†
Chpt 34-36
- Though truly vivacious, tumultuous, ostentatious little Flask would now and then stamp with impatience; but not one added heave did he thereby give to the negro's lordly chest.†
Chpt 46-48
- Ever since the blow, he had lain in his berth; but that morning, hearing the tumult on the deck, he had crept out, and thus far had watched the whole scene.†
Chpt 52-54
- And all the while the thick-lipped leviathan is rushing through the deep, leaving tons of tumultuous white curds in his wake, and causing the slight boat to rock in the swells like a skiff caught nigh the paddle-wheels of an ocean steamer.†
Chpt 55-57
- Remember, also, that the surgeon must operate from above, some eight or ten feet intervening between him and his subject, and that subject almost hidden in a discoloured, rolling, and oftentimes tumultuous and bursting sea.†
Chpt 70-72
- Silence reigned over the before tumultuous but now deserted deck.†
Chpt 70-72
- In the tumultuous business of cutting-in and attending to a whale, there is much running backwards and forwards among the crew.†
Chpt 70-72
- But suddenly in the distance, they saw a great heap of tumultuous white water, and soon after news came from aloft that one or both the boats must be fast.†
Chpt 73-75
- Meantime, there was a terrible tumult.†
Chpt 76-78 *
- Giving a sudden gasp, he tumultuously sounded.†
Chpt 79-81
- And still in the distracted distance we beheld the tumults of the outer concentric circles, and saw successive pods of whales, eight or ten in each, swiftly going round and round, like multiplied spans of horses in a ring; and so closely shoulder to shoulder, that a Titanic circus-rider might easily have over-arched the middle ones, and so have gone round on their backs.†
Chpt 85-87
- A low advancing hum was soon heard; and then like to the tumultuous masses of block-ice when the great river Hudson breaks up in Spring, the entire host of whales came tumbling upon their inner centre, as if to pile themselves up in one common mountain.†
Chpt 85-87
- Meanwhile, others of the ship's company were tumultuously busy at the masonry of the try-works, from which the huge pots had been removed.†
Chpt 115-117
- Standing between the knight-heads, Starbuck watched the Pequod's tumultuous way, and Ahab's also, as he went lurching along the deck.†
Chpt 118-120
Definition:
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(tumult as in: tumult in financial markets) confusion or disorder -- often noisy