All 3 Uses of
postpone
in
Moby Dick
- Upon making known our desires for a supper and a bed, Mrs. Hussey, postponing further scolding for the present, ushered us into a little room, and seating us at a table spread with the relics of a recently concluded repast, turned round to us and said—"Clam or Cod?"†
Chpt 13-15 *
- But in the cautious comprehensiveness and unloitering vigilance with which Ahab threw his brooding soul into this unfaltering hunt, he would not permit himself to rest all his hopes upon the one crowning fact above mentioned, however flattering it might be to those hopes; nor in the sleeplessness of his vow could he so tranquillize his unquiet heart as to postpone all intervening quest.†
Chpt 43-45
- He was an old man, who, at the age of nearly sixty, had postponedly encountered that thing in sorrow's technicals called ruin.†
Chpt 112-114
Definition:
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(postpone) delay until a later time