All 8 Uses of
vertebrae
in
Moby Dick
- If you attentively regard almost any quadruped's spine, you will be struck with the resemblance of its vertebrae to a strung necklace of dwarfed skulls, all bearing rudimental resemblance to the skull proper.†
Chpt 79-81
- It is a German conceit, that the vertebrae are absolutely undeveloped skulls.†
Chpt 79-81 *
- A foreign friend once pointed it out to me, in the skeleton of a foe he had slain, and with the vertebrae of which he was inlaying, in a sort of basso-relievo, the beaked prow of his canoe.†
Chpt 79-81
- As it passes through the remaining vertebrae the canal tapers in size, but for a considerable distance remains of large capacity.†
Chpt 79-81
- This august hump, if I mistake not, rises over one of the larger vertebrae, and is, therefore, in some sort, the outer convex mould of it.†
Chpt 79-81
- The ribs were hung with trophies; the vertebrae were carved with Arsacidean annals, in strange hieroglyphics; in the skull, the priests kept up an unextinguished aromatic flame, so that the mystic head again sent forth its vapoury spout; while, suspended from a bough, the terrific lower jaw vibrated over all the devotees, like the hair-hung sword that so affrighted Damocles.†
Chpt 100-102
- There are forty and odd vertebrae in all, which in the skeleton are not locked together.†
Chpt 103-105
- When I stand among these mighty Leviathan skeletons, skulls, tusks, jaws, ribs, and vertebrae, all characterized by partial resemblances to the existing breeds of sea-monsters; but at the same time bearing on the other hand similar affinities to the annihilated antichronical Leviathans, their incalculable seniors; I am, by a flood, borne back to that wondrous period, ere time itself can be said to have begun; for time began with man.†
Chpt 103-105
Definition:
bony segments of the spinal column