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Definition
to rise again after failure, inactivity, or disuse
- I lay there dismally calculating that sixteen entire hours must elapse before I could hope for a resurrection.Chapters 4-6 — The Counter-Pane; Breakfast; The Street (10% in)
- What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave.Chapters 7-9 — The Chapel; The Pulpit; The Sermon (10% in)
- Tell 'em it's the resurrection; they must kiss their last, and come to judgment.Chapters 40-42 — Midnight, Forecastle; Moby Dick; The Whiteness of the Whale (3% in)
- Besides, all the days I should now live would be as good as the days that Lazarus lived after his resurrection; a supplementary clean gain of so many months or weeks as the case might be.Chapters 49-51 — The Hyena; Ahab's Boat and Crew - Fedallah; The Spirit-Spout (22% in)
- And so they'll say in the resurrection, when they come to fish up this old mast, and find a doubloon lodged in it, with bedded oysters for the shaggy bark.Chapters 97-99 — The Lamp; Stowing Down & Clearing Up; Doubloon (98% in)
- Halloa, there, you Smut! bear a hand there with those screws, and let's finish it before the resurrection fellow comes a-calling with his horn for all legs, true or false, as brewery-men go round collecting old beer barrels, to fill 'em up again.Chapters 106-108 — Ahab's Leg; The Carpenter; Ahab and the Carpenter (98% in)
- God"—advancing towards the hammock with uplifted hands—"may the resurrection and the life—"Chapters 130-132 — The Hat; The Pequod meets the Delight; The Symphony (54% in)
There are no more uses of "resurrection" in Moby Dick.
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