to glance upon a thing
- Fuente de la expresión
- Diccionario Nuevo de las dos lenguas española e inglesa en quatro tomos
- Estructura completa
- To glance upon a thing
- Contexto
- Rains and spray had damped it; the sun and wind had warped it; all the elements had combined to rot a thing that hung so idly.
But heedless of all this, his mood seized Ahab, as he happened to glance
upon the reel, not many hours after the magnet scene, and he remembered how
his quadrant was no more, and recalled his frantic oath about the level log
and line.
- Tipo de fuente
- 0
- Autor
- Herman Melville
- Título de la fuente
- Moby Dick
- Año
- 1997
- Web
- http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/gopher/text/fiction/MobyDick/moby.125
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- Sin definir
- Frecuencia
- Frecuente