1 "I wonder what the old man wants with this lump of foul lard," said Stubb, not without some disgust at the thought of having to do with so ignoble a leviathan.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ... 2 It designates the dark, glutinous substance which is scraped off the back of the Greenland or right whale, and much of which covers the decks of those inferior souls who hunt that ignoble Leviathan.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 94. A Squeeze of the Hand. 3 It was some foul parody, some infamous ignoble satire.
4 When I think of you, I feel that I could never do a base deed, or think an ignoble thought.
5 But I could not endure their taunts; I could not give in to them with the ignoble readiness with which they gave in to one another.
6 His childishly rash, uncalled-for, and ignoble departure from Africa, leaving his comrades in distress, is set down to his credit, and again the enemy's fleet twice lets him slip past.
7 Javert, though frightful, had nothing ignoble about him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED 8 Generally, to throw listeners off the track, slang confines itself to adding to all the words of the language without distinction, an ignoble tail, a termination in aille, in orgue, in iergue, or in uche.
9 I know it is ignoble: a mere fever of the flesh: not, I declare, the convulsion of the soul.