All 18 Uses
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- why the Life Insurance Companies pay death-forfeitures upon immortals;†
Chpt 7-9immortals = people who live forever OR people famous throughout history
- Delightful inducements to embark, fine chance for promotion, it seems—aye, a stove boat will make me an immortal by brevet.†
Chpt 7-9 *
- —chiefly known to me by Thy rod—mortal or immortal, here I die.†
Chpt 7-9
- For what he ate did not so much relieve his hunger, as keep it immortal in him.†
Chpt 34-36
- Forced into familiarity, then, with such prodigies as these; and knowing that after repeated, intrepid assaults, the White Whale had escaped alive; it cannot be much matter of surprise that some whalemen should go still further in their superstitions; declaring Moby Dick not only ubiquitous, but immortal (for immortality is but ubiquity in time); that though groves of spears should be planted in his flanks, he would still swim away unharmed; or if indeed he should ever be made to spout thick blood, such a sight would be but a ghastly deception; for again in unensanguined billows hundreds of leagues away, his unsullied jet would once more be seen.†
Chpt 40-42
- Forced into familiarity, then, with such prodigies as these; and knowing that after repeated, intrepid assaults, the White Whale had escaped alive; it cannot be much matter of surprise that some whalemen should go still further in their superstitions; declaring Moby Dick not only ubiquitous, but immortal (for immortality is but ubiquity in time); that though groves of spears should be planted in his flanks, he would still swim away unharmed; or if indeed he should ever be made to spout thick blood, such a sight would be but a ghastly deception; for again in unensanguined billows hundreds of leagues away, his unsullied jet would once more be seen.†
Chpt 40-42immortality = eternal life (to live forever)
- But not only did each of these famous whales enjoy great individual celebrity—Nay, you may call it an ocean-wide renown; not only was he famous in life and now is immortal in forecastle stories after death, but he was admitted into all the rights, privileges, and distinctions of a name; had as much a name indeed as Cambyses or Caesar.†
Chpt 43-45
- The wind increased to a howl; the waves dashed their bucklers together; the whole squall roared, forked, and crackled around us like a white fire upon the prairie, in which, unconsumed, we were burning; immortal in these jaws of death!†
Chpt 46-48
- 'A very white, and famous, and most deadly immortal monster, Don;—but that would be too long a story.'†
Chpt 52-54
- 'Tis July's immortal Fourth; all fountains must run wine today!†
Chpt 82-84
- Wherefore, for all these things, we account the whale immortal in his species, however perishable in his individuality.†
Chpt 103-105
- But as all else in him thinned, and his cheek-bones grew sharper, his eyes, nevertheless, seemed growing fuller and fuller; they became of a strange softness of lustre; and mildly but deeply looked out at you there from his sickness, a wondrous testimony to that immortal health in him which could not die, or be weakened.†
Chpt 109-111
- oh, ever vernal endless landscapes in the soul; in ye,—though long parched by the dead drought of the earthy life,—in ye, men yet may roll, like young horses in new morning clover; and for some few fleeting moments, feel the cool dew of the life immortal on them.†
Chpt 112-114
- —I am immortal then, on land and on sea," cried Ahab, with a laugh of derision;—"Immortal on land and on sea!"†
Chpt 115-117
- —I am immortal then, on land and on sea," cried Ahab, with a laugh of derision;—"Immortal on land and on sea!"†
Chpt 115-117
- that man should be a thing for immortal souls to sieve through!†
Chpt 124-126
- Can it be that in some spiritual sense the coffin is, after all, but an immortality-preserver!†
Chpt 127-129immortality = eternal life (to live forever)
- Oh, immortal infancy, and innocency of the azure!†
Chpt 130-132
Definitions:
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(1)
(immortal) living or existing forever
or:
someone famous throughout history
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someone who will never die -- such as a mythological god -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, "The Immortals" denotes a military corps of the Persian Empire. The Immortals were so-named because each time a member of the 10,000 man corps was killed or seriously wounded, he was replaced by another man. They are best remembered in western culture for their role in defeating the badly out-numbered Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae.