All 3 Uses of
scrutiny
in
Billy Budd
- And here be it submitted that apparently going to corroborate the doctrine of man's fall, a doctrine now popularly ignored, it is observable that where certain virtues pristine and unadulterate peculiarly characterize anybody in the external uniform of civilization, they will upon scrutiny seem not to be derived from custom or convention, but rather to be out of keeping with these, as if indeed exceptionally transmitted from a period prior to Cain's city and citified man.†
Chpt 2
- Claggart—-himself for the time liberated from the other's scrutiny—steadily...
Chpt 18 *scrutiny = careful look or inspection
- —Now, Master—at-arms, tell this man to his face what you told of him to me;" and stood prepared to scrutinize the mutually confronting visages.†
Chpt 19
Definition:
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(scrutiny) careful examination of something