Moby-Dick: Battery
Battery
- an impressive grouping of things (people in this case)
- Defintion 2
The word battery appears in the following sentences from Moby-Dick:
Chapter 1 > Paragraph 2 > Sentence 3:
Its extreme downtown is the battery, where that noble mole is washed by waves, and cooled by breezes, which a few hours previous were out of sight of land.
Chapter 3 > Paragraph 10 > Sentence 1:
I sat down on an old wooden settle, carved all over like a bench on the battery.
Chapter 24 > Paragraph 3 > Sentence 6:
And if the idea of peril so much enhances the popular conceit of the soldier's profession; let me assure ye that many a veteran who has freely marched up to a battery, would quickly recoil at the apparition of the sperm whale's vast tail, fanning into eddies the air over his head.
Concordance for the word battery from Moby-Dick.
