surrenderest

Updated: May 1, 2025

But thou sayest, methinks that white-lead chapter about whiteness is but a white flag hung out from a craven soul; thou surrenderest to a hypo, Ishmael.

Herman Melville - Moby Dick, or, the whale

But I will lead thee also to pleasures of which the vulgar do not dream; and the day which thou givest to men shall be followed by the sweet night which thou surrenderest to thyself. As the Egyptian ceased there rose about, around, beneath, the softest music that Lydia ever taught, or Iona ever perfected.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Last Days of Pompeii

For thou, in thy haste to acquire a triviality surrenderest the valuable; and such people are in the position of the merchant who had a house full of aloe wood and who said, "If I were to sell this by weight it would take me too long" and therefore gave it away wholesale for a trifling price.

Konstantin Aleksandrovich Inostrantzev - Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I

But thou sayest, methinks this white-lead chapter about whiteness is but a white flag hung out from a craven soul; thou surrenderest to a hypo, Ishmael.

Herman Melville - Moby Dick: or, the White Whale