Hamlet vocabulary

With many other particulars concerning Ahab, always had it remained a mystery to some, why it was, that for a certain period, both before and after the sailing of the Pequod, he had hidden himself away with such Grand-Lama-like exclusiveness; and, for that one interval, sought speechless refuge, as it were, among the marble senate of the dead. Captain Peleg's bruited reason for this thing appeared by no means adequate; though, indeed, as touching all Ahab's deeper part, every revelation partook more of significant darkness than of explanatory light.

Herman Melville. Moby Dick

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Chase: I noticed a small bruit when I listened to Harvey's left carotid. You could hear that if he had an aneurysm from trauma.

David Shore. House, M.D., season 1: Love Hurts (2005)