All 7 Uses of
Andes
in
Moby Dick
- But who could show a cheek like Queequeg? which, barred with various tints, seemed like the Andes' western slope, to show forth in one array, contrasting climates, zone by zone.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- Second: To the native Indian of Peru, the continual sight of the snow-howdahed Andes conveys naught of dread, except, perhaps, in the mere fancying of the eternal frosted desolateness reigning at such vast altitudes, and the natural conceit of what a fearfulness it would be to lose oneself in such inhuman solitudes.†
Chpt 40-42
- So this bright coin came from a country planted in the middle of the world, and beneath the great equator, and named after it; and it had been cast midway up the Andes, in the unwaning clime that knows no autumn.†
Chpt 97-99
- Zoned by those letters you saw the likeness of three Andes' summits; from one a flame; a tower on another; on the third a crowing cock; while arching over all was a segment of the partitioned zodiac, the signs all marked with their usual cabalistics, and the keystone sun entering the equinoctial point at Libra.†
Chpt 97-99
- Then the whole world was the whale's; and, king of creation, he left his wake along the present lines of the Andes and the Himmalehs.†
Chpt 103-105
- Yet I'll contribute to raise rods on the Himmalehs and Andes, that all the world may be secured; but out on privileges!†
Chpt 118-120
- But it is a mild, mild wind, and a mild looking sky; and the air smells now, as if it blew from a far-away meadow; they have been making hay somewhere under the slopes of the Andes, Starbuck, and the mowers are sleeping among the new-mown hay.†
Chpt 130-132
Definition:
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(Andes) South America mountain range that is the world's longest -- running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast