Besides, if it were so that any mere sailor of the Pequod had a grudge against Flask in Flask's official capacity, all that sailor had to do, in order to obtain ample vengeance, was to go aft at dinner-time, and get a peep at Flask through the cabin sky-light, sitting silly and
dumfoundered before awful Ahab.
THE intelligence with which Lestrade greeted us was so momentous and so unexpected, that we were all three fairly
dumfoundered. Gregson sprang out of his chair and upset the remainder of his whiskey and water.