All 7 Uses of
subside
in
Moby Dick
- Ahab's full lunacy subsided not, but deepeningly contracted; like the unabated Hudson, when that noble Northman flows narrowly, but unfathomably through the Highland gorge.†
Chpt 40-42
- You must know that in a settled and civilized ocean like our Atlantic, for example, some skippers think little of pumping their whole way across it; though of a still, sleepy night, should the officer of the deck happen to forget his duty in that respect, the probability would be that he and his shipmates would never again remember it, on account of all hands gently subsiding to the bottom.†
Chpt 52-54
- Yea, foolish mortals, Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.†
Chpt 58-60
- Thus glistening for a moment, as slowly it subsided, and sank.†
Chpt 58-60
- Next morning the not-yet-subsided sea rolled in long slow billows of mighty bulk, and striving in the Pequod's gurgling track, pushed her on like giants' palms outspread.†
Chpt 124-126
- But as the last whelmings intermixingly poured themselves over the sunken head of the Indian at the mainmast, leaving a few inches of the erect spar yet visible, together with long streaming yards of the flag, which calmly undulated, with ironical coincidings, over the destroying billows they almost touched;—at that instant, a red arm and a hammer hovered backwardly uplifted in the open air, in the act of nailing the flag faster and yet faster to the subsiding spar.†
Chpt 133-135
- When I reached it, it had subsided to a creamy pool.†
Chpt Epil. *
Definition:
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(subside as in: her anger subsided) become less intense, less severe, or less active -- perhaps going away entirely