Moby-Dick: Plaster
Plaster
- a composition of lime, water, and sand used to coat walls
The word plaster appears in the following sentences from Moby-Dick:
Chapter 1 > Paragraph 3 > Sentence 5:
But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster—tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks.
Chapter 17 > Paragraph 14 > Sentence 1:
With a prodigious noise the door flew open, and the knob slamming against the wall, sent the plaster to the ceiling; and there, good heavens! there sat Queequeg, altogether cool on his hams, and holding Yojo on top of his head.
Concordance for the word plaster from Moby-Dick.
