All 12 Uses of
vengeance
in
Moby Dick
- Thinks I, Queequeg, this is using Rogers's best cutlery with a vengeance.†
Chpt 4-6 (definition 1) *
- They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.†
Chpt 16-18 (definition 1)
- Besides, if it were so that any mere sailor of the Pequod had a grudge against Flask in Flask's official capacity, all that sailor had to do, in order to obtain ample vengeance, was to go aft at dinner-time, and get a peep at Flask through the cabin sky-light, sitting silly and dumfoundered before awful Ahab.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 2)
- "I am game for his crooked jaw, and for the jaws of Death too, Captain Ahab, if it fairly comes in the way of the business we follow; but I came here to hunt whales, not my commander's vengeance.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 2)
- How many barrels will thy vengeance yield thee even if thou gettest it, Captain Ahab? it will not fetch thee much in our Nantucket market.†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 2) *
- If money's to be the measurer, man, and the accountants have computed their great counting-house the globe, by girdling it with guineas, one to every three parts of an inch; then, let me tell thee, that my vengeance will fetch a great premium HERE!"†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 2)
- "Vengeance on a dumb brute!" cried Starbuck, "that simply smote thee from blindest instinct!†
Chpt 34-36 (definition 2)
- There it was, too, that most of the deadly encounters with the white whale had taken place; there the waves were storied with his deeds; there also was that tragic spot where the monomaniac old man had found the awful motive to his vengeance.†
Chpt 43-45 (definition 2)
- In truth, well nigh the whole of this passage being attended by very prosperous breezes, the Town-Ho had all but certainly arrived in perfect safety at her port without the occurrence of the least fatality, had it not been for the brutal overbearing of Radney, the mate, a Vineyarder, and the bitterly provoked vengeance of Steelkilt, a Lakeman and desperado from Buffalo.†
Chpt 52-54 (definition 2)
- The first boat we read of, floated on an ocean, that with Portuguese vengeance had whelmed a whole world without leaving so much as a widow.†
Chpt 58-60 (definition 2)
- And when he glanced upon the green walls of the watery defile in which the ship was then sailing, and bethought him that through that gate lay the route to his vengeance, and beheld, how that through that same gate he was now both chasing and being chased to his deadly end; and not only that, but a herd of remorseless wild pirates and inhuman atheistical devils were infernally cheering him on with their curses;—when all these conceits had passed through his brain, Ahab's brow was left…†
Chpt 85-87 (definition 2)
- Retribution, swift vengeance, eternal malice were in his whole aspect, and spite of all that mortal man could do, the solid white buttress of his forehead smote the ship's starboard bow, till men and timbers reeled.†
Chpt 133-135 (definition 2)
Definitions:
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(1) (with a vengeance as in: with a vengeance) with intensity
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(2) (vengeance as in: vengeance is mine) the act of taking revenge
(Revenge means to harm someone to get them back for something harmful that they have done.)