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Definition
following (some event in time) — and typically because of that event
- Therefore, he must wait for the next ensuing season.Chapters 43-45 — Hark!; The Chart; The Affidavit (28% in)
- A brief pause ensued; the preacher slowly turned over the leaves of the Bible, and at last, folding his hand down upon the proper page, said: "Beloved shipmates, clinch the last verse of the first chapter of Jonah—'And God had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah.'Chapters 7-9 — The Chapel; The Pulpit; The Sermon (41% in)
- But at length, such calamities did ensue in these assaults—not restricted to sprained wrists and ankles, broken limbs, or devouring amputations—but fatal to the last degree of fatality; those repeated disastrous repulses, all accumulating and piling their terrors upon Moby Dick; those things had gone far to shake the fortitude of many brave hunters, to whom the story of the White Whale had eventually come.Chapters 40-42 — Midnight, Forecastle; Moby Dick; The Whiteness of the Whale (23% in)
- In the short gam that ensued she gave us strong news of Moby Dick.Chapters 52-54 — The Albatross; The Gam; The Town-Ho's Story (24% in)
- Others of the sailors joined with them in this attempt, and a twisted turmoil ensued; while standing out of harm's way, the valiant captain danced up and down with a whale-pike, calling upon his officers to manhandle that atrocious scoundrel, and smoke him along to the quarter-deck.Chapters 52-54 — The Albatross; The Gam; The Town-Ho's Story (60% in)
- While the two headsmen were engaged in making fast cords to his flukes, and in other ways getting the mass in readiness for towing, some conversation ensued between them.Chapters 73-75 — Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; The Sperm Whale's Head, The Right Whale's Head (14% in)
- But this was very far North, be it remembered, where beer agrees well with the constitution; upon the Equator, in our southern fishery, beer would be apt to make the harpooneer sleepy at the mast-head and boozy in his boat; and grievous loss might ensue to Nantucket and New Bedford.Chapters 100-102 — The Pequod meets....; The Decanter; A Bower in the Arsacides (72% in)
- AHAB (ADVANCING) (DURING THE ENSUING SCENE, THE CARPENTER CONTINUES SNEEZING AT TIMES) Well, manmaker!Chapters 106-108 — Ahab's Leg; The Carpenter; Ahab and the Carpenter (66% in)
- So, floating on the margin of the ensuing scene, and in full sight of it, when the halfspent suction of the sunk ship reached me, I was then, but slowly, drawn towards the closing vortex.Epilogue (31% in)
There are no more uses of "ensuing" in Moby Dick.
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