All 6 Uses of
wrath
in
Moby Dick
- From thence it is the storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the earliest brunt.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- Alarmed at this terrible outburst between the two principal and responsible owners of the ship, and feeling half a mind to give up all idea of sailing in a vessel so questionably owned and temporarily commanded, I stepped aside from the door to give egress to Bildad, who, I made no doubt, was all eagerness to vanish from before the awakened wrath of Peleg.†
Chpt 16-18
- Spurn the idol Bell, and the hideous dragon; turn from the wrath to come; mind thine eye, I say; oh! goodness gracious! steer clear of the fiery pit!†
Chpt 16-18
- For though their progenitors, the builders of Babel, must doubtless, by their tower, have intended to rear the loftiest mast-head in all Asia, or Africa either; yet (ere the final truck was put to it) as that great stone mast of theirs may be said to have gone by the board, in the dread gale of God's wrath; therefore, we cannot give these Babel builders priority over the Egyptians.†
Chpt 34-36
- Judge, then, to what pitches of inflamed, distracted fury the minds of his more desperate hunters were impelled, when amid the chips of chewed boats, and the sinking limbs of torn comrades, they swam out of the white curds of the whale's direful wrath into the serene, exasperating sunlight, that smiled on, as if at a birth or a bridal.†
Chpt 40-42
- "Pull up—pull up!" he now cried to the bowsman, as the waning whale relaxed in his wrath.†
Chpt 61-63
Definition:
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(wrath) extreme anger or angry punishment