melvillian

Example Sentences

• ""Then he rallied in Huntersville with Maricopa County (Ariz.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a Melvillian character on a never-ending crusade against Latinos."https://web.archive.org/web/20120529071053/http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/05/03/3217068/2-better-choices-in-9th-congressional.html"
• "Perhaps you think I am “spitefully” sitting on a lot of secrets—facts unknown to you or other Melvillians—I don’t know of a single fact that is unknown to you.—Many of them facts from my collection are to be found in the Pierre footnotes; if they have not already been published by other Melvillians."
• "The reduction of aristocratic power had been achieved only at the cost of conciliating the Melvillians in the Scottish Church and leaving episcopacy in limbo."
• "In 1596, James had successfully undermined Edinburgh’s support for the Melvillians by threatening to remove council and law court from the capital."
• "It was easier for the Melvillians to write manifestos than to bring these structures into being. For most of the 1567–73 civil war, the Scots Church remained a strange hybrid, a half-finished Reformed Church alongside the still-functioning husk of its Catholic predecessor."
• "Most Melvillians have their own favorite impassioned lyrical moments in Moby-Dick prior to the marathon reading."