All 13 Uses of
scarcity
in
Moby Dick
- However, a good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- In black distress, I called my God, When I could scarce believe him mine, He bowed his ear to my complaints— No more the whale did me confine.†
Chpt 7-9
- He goes down in the whirling heart of such a masterless commotion that he scarce heeds the moment when he drops seething into the yawning jaws awaiting him; and the whale shoots-to all his ivory teeth, like so many white bolts, upon his prison.†
Chpt 7-9
- He looked neither one way nor the other way, but sat like a carved image with scarce a sign of active life.†
Chpt 16-18
- But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to write it; for it is a thing most sorrowful, nay shocking, to expose the fall of valour in the soul.†
Chpt 25-27
- In those times, also, spermaceti was exceedingly scarce, not being used for light, but only as an ointment and medicament.†
Chpt 31-33
- When, as I opine, in the course of time, the true nature of spermaceti became known, its original name was still retained by the dealers; no doubt to enhance its value by a notion so strangely significant of its scarcity.†
Chpt 31-33
- Whales are scarce as hen's teeth whenever thou art up here."†
Chpt 34-36
- In sum, gentlemen, what the wildness of this canal life is, is emphatically evinced by this; that our wild whale-fishery contains so many of its most finished graduates, and that scarce any race of mankind, except Sydney men, are so much distrusted by our whaling captains.†
Chpt 52-54
- He was a little frisky; though as yet his body seemed scarce yet recovered from that irksome position it had so lately occupied in the maternal reticule; where, tail to head, and all ready for the final spring, the unborn whale lies bent like a Tartar's bow.†
Chpt 85-87
- Toes are scarce among veteran blubber-room men.†
Chpt 94-96
- In merchantmen, oil for the sailor is more scarce than the milk of queens.†
Chpt 97-99
- Yet the voice spake true; for scarce had he pushed from the ship, when numbers of sharks, seemingly rising from out the dark waters beneath the hull, maliciously snapped at the blades of the oars, every time they dipped in the water; and in this way accompanied the boat with their bites.†
Chpt 133-135
Definition:
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(scarcity) shortage (having an amount that is less than desired)