Moby-Dick: Inferred
Inferred
- to derive by reasoning
- conclude or judge from premises or evidence
The word inferred appears in the following sentences from Moby-Dick:
Chapter 1 > Paragraph 7 > Sentence 1:
Now, when I say that I am in the habit of going to sea whenever I begin to grow hazy about the eyes, and begin to be over conscious of my lungs, I do not mean to have it inferred that I ever go to sea as a passenger.
Chapter 4 > Paragraph 5 > Sentence 2:
What under the heavens he did it for, I cannot tell, but his next movement was to crush himself—boots in hand, and hat on—under the bed; when, from sundry violent gaspings and strainings, I inferred he was hard at work booting himself; though by no law of propriety that I ever heard of, is any man required to be private when putting on his boots.
Chapter 16 > Paragraph 26 > Sentence 1:
I was a little alarmed by his energy, perhaps also a little touched at the hearty grief in his concluding exclamation, but said as calmly as I could, "What you say is no doubt true enough, sir; but how could I know there was any peculiar ferocity in that particular whale, though indeed I might have inferred as much from the simple fact of the accident."
Chapter 55 > Paragraph 13 > Sentence 4:
Though Jeremy Bentham's skeleton, which hangs for candelabra in the library of one of his executors, correctly conveys the idea of a burly-browed utilitarian old gentleman, with all Jeremy's other leading personal characteristics; yet nothing of this kind could be inferred from any leviathan's articulated bones.
Concordance for the word inferred from Moby-Dick.
