All 50 Uses of
leviathan
in
Moby Dick
- As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or entertaining, as affording a glancing bird's eye view of what has been promiscuously said, thought, fancied, and sung of Leviathan, by many nations and generations, including our own.†
Chpt Extr
- Leviathan maketh a path to shine after him; One would think the deep to be hoary.†
Chpt Extr
- There go the ships; there is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to play therein.†
Chpt Extr
- In that day, the Lord with his sore, and great, and strong sword, shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.†
Chpt Extr
- In that day, the Lord with his sore, and great, and strong sword, shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.†
Chpt Extr
- Old Nick take me if is not Leviathan described by the noble prophet Moses in the life of patient Job.†
Chpt Extr
- The great Leviathan that maketh the seas to seethe like boiling pan.†
Chpt Extr
- By art is created that great Leviathan, called a Commonwealth or State—(in Latin, Civitas) which is but an artificial man.†
Chpt Extr
- —OPENING SENTENCE OF HOBBES'S LEVIATHAN.†
Chpt Extr
- That sea beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream.†
Chpt Extr
- —"There Leviathan, Hugest of living creatures, in the deep Stretched like a promontory sleeps or swims, And seems a moving land; and at his gills Draws in, and at his breath spouts out a sea."†
Chpt Extr
- So close behind some promontory lie The huge Leviathan to attend their prey, And give no chance, but swallow in the fry, Which through their gaping jaws mistake the way.†
Chpt Extr
- "In the free element beneath me swam, Floundered and dived, in play, in chace, in battle, Fishes of every colour, form, and kind; Which language cannot paint, and mariner Had never seen; from dread Leviathan To insect millions peopling every wave: Gather'd in shoals immense, like floating islands, Led by mysterious instincts through that waste And trackless region, though on every side Assaulted by voracious enemies, Whales, sharks, and monsters, arm'd in front or jaw, With swords,…†
Chpt Extr
- Where else but from Nantucket did those aboriginal whalemen, the Red-Men, first sally out in canoes to give chase to the Leviathan?†
Chpt 1-3
- But stop; does it not bear a faint resemblance to a gigantic fish? even the great leviathan himself?†
Chpt 1-3
- Though refusing, from conscientious scruples, to bear arms against land invaders, yet himself had illimitably invaded the Atlantic and Pacific; and though a sworn foe to human bloodshed, yet had he in his straight-bodied coat, spilled tuns upon tuns of leviathan gore.†
Chpt 16-18
- Who wrote the first account of our Leviathan?†
Chpt 22-24
- A short, stout, ruddy young fellow, very pugnacious concerning whales, who somehow seemed to think that the great leviathans had personally and hereditarily affronted him; and therefore it was a sort of point of honour with him, to destroy them whenever encountered.†
Chpt 25-27
- For a Khan of the plank, and a king of the sea, and a great lord of Leviathans was Ahab.†
Chpt 28-30
- Ere that come to pass; ere the Pequod's weedy hull rolls side by side with the barnacled hulls of the leviathan; at the outset it is but well to attend to a matter almost indispensable to a thorough appreciative understanding of the more special leviathanic revelations and allusions of all sorts which are to follow.†
Chpt 31-33
- What am I that I should essay to hook the nose of this leviathan!†
Chpt 31-33
- Will he the (leviathan) make a covenant with thee?†
Chpt 31-33
- But of my own knowledge, I know that down to the year 1850, sharks and shad, alewives and herring, against Linnaeus's express edict, were still found dividing the possession of the same seas with the Leviathan.†
Chpt 31-33
- —In one respect this is the most venerable of the leviathans, being the one first regularly hunted by man.†
Chpt 31-33
- Very shy; always going solitary; unexpectedly rising to the surface in the remotest and most sullen waters; his straight and single lofty jet rising like a tall misanthropic spear upon a barren plain; gifted with such wondrous power and velocity in swimming, as to defy all present pursuit from man; this leviathan seems the banished and unconquerable Cain of his race, bearing for his mark that style upon his back.†
Chpt 31-33
- …with this appellative of "Whalebone whales," it is of great importance to mention, that however such a nomenclature may be convenient in facilitating allusions to some kind of whales, yet it is in vain to attempt a clear classification of the Leviathan, founded upon either his baleen, or hump, or fin, or teeth; notwithstanding that those marked parts or features very obviously seem better adapted to afford the basis for a regular system of Cetology than any other detached bodily…†
Chpt 31-33
- And if you descend into the bowels of the various leviathans, why there you will not find distinctions a fiftieth part as available to the systematizer as those external ones already enumerated.†
Chpt 31-33
- But possessing all the grand distinctive features of the leviathan, most naturalists have recognised him for one.†
Chpt 31-33
- Above, you have all the Leviathans of note.†
Chpt 31-33
- Not even at the present day has the original prestige of the Sperm Whale, as fearfully distinguished from all other species of the leviathan, died out of the minds of the whalemen as a body.†
Chpt 40-42
- …or timidity, decline a contest with the Sperm Whale; at any rate, there are plenty of whalemen, especially among those whaling nations not sailing under the American flag, who have never hostilely encountered the Sperm Whale, but whose sole knowledge of the leviathan is restricted to the ignoble monster primitively pursued in the North; seated on their hatches, these men will hearken with a childish fireside interest and awe, to the wild, strange tales of Southern whaling.†
Chpt 40-42
- So that overawed by the rumors and portents concerning him, not a few of the fishermen recalled, in reference to Moby Dick, the earlier days of the Sperm Whale fishery, when it was oftentimes hard to induce long practised Right whalemen to embark in the perils of this new and daring warfare; such men protesting that although other leviathans might be hopefully pursued, yet to chase and point lance at such an apparition as the Sperm Whale was not for mortal man.†
Chpt 40-42
- Now, to any one not fully acquainted with the ways of the leviathans, it might seem an absurdly hopeless task thus to seek out one solitary creature in the unhooped oceans of this planet.†
Chpt 43-45
- Was it not so, O Timor Tom! thou famed leviathan, scarred like an iceberg, who so long did'st lurk in the Oriental straits of that name, whose spout was oft seen from the palmy beach of Ombay?†
Chpt 43-45
- Do you suppose that that poor fellow there, who this moment perhaps caught by the whale-line off the coast of New Guinea, is being carried down to the bottom of the sea by the sounding leviathan—do you suppose that that poor fellow's name will appear in the newspaper obituary you will read to-morrow at your breakfast?†
Chpt 43-45
- The Hindoo whale referred to, occurs in a separate department of the wall, depicting the incarnation of Vishnu in the form of leviathan, learnedly known as the Matse Avatar.†
Chpt 55-57
- It was introduced by an old Italian publisher somewhere about the 15th century, during the Revival of Learning; and in those days, and even down to a comparatively late period, dolphins were popularly supposed to be a species of the Leviathan.†
Chpt 55-57
- But quitting all these unprofessional attempts, let us glance at those pictures of leviathan purporting to be sober, scientific delineations, by those who know.†
Chpt 55-57
- Then, again, in 1825, Bernard Germain, Count de Lacepede, a great naturalist, published a scientific systemized whale book, wherein are several pictures of the different species of the Leviathan.†
Chpt 55-57
- Though elephants have stood for their full-lengths, the living Leviathan has never yet fairly floated himself for his portrait.†
Chpt 55-57
- And, not to speak of the highly presumable difference of contour between a young sucking whale and a full-grown Platonian Leviathan; yet, even in the case of one of those young sucking whales hoisted to a ship's deck, such is then the outlandish, eel-like, limbered, varying shape of him, that his precise expression the devil himself could not catch.†
Chpt 55-57
- For it is one of the more curious things about this Leviathan, that his skeleton gives very little idea of his general shape.†
Chpt 55-57
- Though Jeremy Bentham's skeleton, which hangs for candelabra in the library of one of his executors, correctly conveys the idea of a burly-browed utilitarian old gentleman, with all Jeremy's other leading personal characteristics; yet nothing of this kind could be inferred from any leviathan's articulated bones.†
Chpt 55-57
- For all these reasons, then, any way you may look at it, you must needs conclude that the great Leviathan is that one creature in the world which must remain unpainted to the last.†
Chpt 55-57
- Wherefore, it seems to me you had best not be too fastidious in your curiosity touching this Leviathan.†
Chpt 55-57
- 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
- In bony, ribby regions of the earth, where at the base of high broken cliffs masses of rock lie strewn in fantastic groupings upon the plain, you will often discover images as of the petrified forms of the Leviathan partly merged in grass, which of a windy day breaks against them in a surf of green surges.†
Chpt 55-57
- Thus at the North have I chased Leviathan round and round the Pole with the revolutions of the bright points that first defined him to me.†
Chpt 55-57
- And as in the great hunting countries of India, the stranger at a distance will sometimes pass on the plains recumbent elephants without knowing them to be such, taking them for bare, blackened elevations of the soil; even so, often, with him, who for the first time beholds this species of the leviathans of the sea.†
Chpt 58-60
- Mingling their mumblings with his own mastications, thousands on thousands of sharks, swarming round the dead leviathan, smackingly feasted on its fatness.†
Chpt 64-66
Definition:
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(leviathan) something that is exceedingly large -- absolutely or relative to its kind
or:
older usage: a large sea monster or whale