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consort together
Definition
spend time with — especially spending leisure time with people considered undesirable; or one of the people with whom time is spent
- I had noticed also that Queequeg never consorted at all, or but very little, with the other seamen in the inn.Chapters 10-12 -- A Bosom Friend; Nightgown; Biographical (17% in)
- ...in these modern days still preserve much of the ghostly aboriginalness of earth's primal generations, when the memory of the first man was a distinct recollection, and all men his descendants, unknowing whence he came, eyed each other as real phantoms, and asked of the sun and the moon why they were created and to what end; when though, according to Genesis, the angels indeed consorted with the daughters of men, the devils also, add the uncanonical Rabbins, indulged in mundane amours.Chapters 49-51 -- The Hyena; Ahab's Boat and Crew - Fedallah; The Spirit-Spout (54% in)
There are no more uses of "consort" flagged with this meaning in Moby Dick.
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- In these instances, the whale of course is shifted like a mug of ale, as it were, from the one boat to the other; though the first boat always hovers at hand to assist its consort.Chapters 58-60 -- Brit; Squid; The Line (77% in)
- For, as it eventually turned out, he cared not to consort, even for five minutes, with any stranger captain, except he could contribute some of that information he so absorbingly sought.Chapters 52-54 -- The Albatross; The Gam; The Town-Ho's Story (8% in)
- Just after dark that day, when one watch had retired below, a clamor was heard in the forecastle; and the two trembling traitors running up, besieged the cabin door, saying they durst not consort with the crew.Chapters 52-54 -- The Albatross; The Gam; The Town-Ho's Story (79% in)
There are no more uses of "consort" in Moby Dick.
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