All 8 Uses of
white water
in
Moby Dick
- He is the most gamesome and light-hearted of all the whales, making more gay foam and white water generally than any other of them.†
Chpt 31-33
- Skin your eyes for him, men; look sharp for white water; if ye see but a bubble, sing out.†
Chpt 34-36 *
- To a landsman, no whale, nor any sign of a herring, would have been visible at that moment; nothing but a troubled bit of greenish white water, and thin scattered puffs of vapour hovering over it, and suffusingly blowing off to leeward, like the confused scud from white rolling billows.†
Chpt 46-48
- see that white water!†
Chpt 46-48
- The dancing white water made by the chase was now becoming more and more visible, owing to the increasing darkness of the dun cloud-shadows flung upon the sea.†
Chpt 46-48
- There's white water again!†
Chpt 46-48
- But suddenly in the distance, they saw a great heap of tumultuous white water, and soon after news came from aloft that one or both the boats must be fast.†
Chpt 73-75
- In the distance he saw the diminished dotted boat; and then a swift gleam of bubbling white water; and after that nothing more; whence it was concluded that the stricken whale must have indefinitely run away with his pursuers, as often happens.†
Chpt 127-129
Definition:
frothy water -- especially from rapids (water flowing rapidly downhill)