Moby-Dick: Mole
Mole
- a massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater, or junction between places separated by water
The word mole 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 45 > Paragraph 3 > Sentence 6:
In the three-year instance, it so fell out that I was in the boat both times, first and last, and the last time distinctly recognized a peculiar sort of huge mole under the whale's eye, which I had observed there three years previous.
Chapter 87 > Paragraph 1 > Sentence 2:
In a continuous line from that peninsula stretch the long islands of Sumatra, Java, Bally, and Timor; which, with many others, form a vast mole, or rampart, lengthwise connecting Asia with Australia, and dividing the long unbroken Indian ocean from the thickly studded oriental archipelagoes.
Concordance for the word mole from Moby-Dick.
