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Definition
to gather something valuable and store it; or a collection of such things
- Oh, the gold! the precious, precious, gold! the green miser'll hoard ye soon!Chapters 97-99 -- The Lamp; Stowing Down & Clearing Up; Doubloon (99% in)
- Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs.Chapters 91-93 -- The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud; Ambergris; The Castaway (98% in)
There are no more uses of "hoard" in Moby Dick.
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