All 3 Uses of
sequel
in
Moby Dick
- It was but some few days after encountering the Frenchman, that a most significant event befell the most insignificant of the Pequod's crew; an event most lamentable; and which ended in providing the sometimes madly merry and predestinated craft with a living and ever accompanying prophecy of whatever shattered sequel might prove her own.†
Chpt 91-93
- The thing is common in that fishery; and in the sequel of the narrative, it will then be seen what like abandonment befell myself.†
Chpt 91-93 *
- Death seems the only desirable sequel for a career like this;†
Chpt 112-114
Definitions:
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(1)
(sequel) something that follows and continues something else -- especially a film or book
or more rarely: something that follows as a result of something else -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, sequel can reference anything that follows something else. For example, "She had such a good year, I'm wondering what she will do as a sequel."