All 8 Uses of
respective
in
Moby Dick
- I was already aware that in the whaling business they paid no wages; but all hands, including the captain, received certain shares of the profits called lays, and that these lays were proportioned to the degree of importance pertaining to the respective duties of the ship's company.†
Chpt 16-18respective = relating separately to the people or things just mentioned
- What I mean by these two statements may perhaps be respectively elucidated by the following examples.†
Chpt 40-42 *respectively = separately in the specified order
- I say I, myself, have known three instances similar to this; that is in two of them I saw the whales struck; and, upon the second attack, saw the two irons with the respective marks cut in them, afterwards taken from the dead fish.†
Chpt 43-45respective = relating separately to the people or things just mentioned
- Respectively, they represent attacks on the Sperm and Right Whale.†
Chpt 55-57respectively = separately in the specified order
- It is customary to have two harpoons reposing in the crotch, respectively called the first and second irons.†
Chpt 61-63
- Here be it said, that like the vessels of military marines, the ships of the American Whale Fleet have each a private signal; all which signals being collected in a book with the names of the respective vessels attached, every captain is provided with it.†
Chpt 70-72respective = relating separately to the people or things just mentioned
- The chance comparison in this chapter, between the whale and the elephant, so far as some aspects of the tail of the one and the trunk of the other are concerned, should not tend to place those two opposite organs on an equality, much less the creatures to which they respectively belong.†
Chpt 85-87respectively = separately in the specified order
- Now when these poor sun-burnt mariners, bare-footed, and with their trowsers rolled high up on their eely legs, had wearily hauled their fat fish high and dry, promising themselves a good L150 from the precious oil and bone; and in fantasy sipping rare tea with their wives, and good ale with their cronies, upon the strength of their respective shares; up steps a very learned and most Christian and charitable gentleman, with a copy of Blackstone under his arm; and laying it upon the whale's head, he says—"Hands off!†
Chpt 88-90respective = relating separately to the people or things just mentioned