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Definition
to force someone to live outside of their homeland; or living in such a condition
or more rarely: voluntary absence from a place someone would rather be
or more rarely: voluntary absence from a place someone would rather be
- A family likeness! aye, he did beget ye, ye young exiled royalties; and from your grim sire only will the old State-secret come.Chapters 40-42 — Midnight, Forecastle; Moby Dick; The Whiteness of the Whale (53% in)
- As Abraham before the angels, I bowed myself; the white thing was so white, its wings so wide, and in those for ever exiled waters, I had lost the miserable warping memories of traditions and of towns.Chapters 40-42 — Midnight, Forecastle; Moby Dick; The Whiteness of the Whale (72% in)
- Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery.Chapters 55-57 — Monstrous Pictures of Whales; Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales; Whales in Paint.... (84% in)
There are no more uses of "exile" in Moby Dick.
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