great-embattled

Updated: April 30, 2025

And thus, with all our batteries, store-rooms, and five hundred men, with their baggage, and beds, and provisions, at one move of a round bit of mahogany, our great-embattled ark edged away for the strangers, as easily as a boy turns to the right or left in pursuit of insects in the field. Directly the man on the top-sail-yard reported the dark objects to be hogsheads.

Herman Melville - White Jacket: or, the World on a Man-of-War