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单词 cliff-girdled
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cliff-girdled
b. Instrumental, forming adjectives with past and present participles, as cliff-girdled, cliff-sheltered, cliff-lurking, etc.
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1777 T. Warton Poems 68 A cliff-encircled lawn.
1785 T. Dwight Conquest of Canäan iii. 59 The cliff-topp'd mountain.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II cviii. 173 Before the entrance of a cliff-worn cave.
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 359 A cliff-chafed sea.
1859 D. Masson Brit. Novelists i. 28 Dashing the eternal monotone of her many voices against a cliff-embattled shore.
1869 J. Phillips Vesuvius viii. 203 Cliff-girdled lakes.
1885 W. B. Yeats in Dublin Univ. Rev. May Here is the place, the cliff-encircled wood.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 4 Aug. 2/3 Stand firm upon thy cliff-girt coast.
1901 R. Kipling Kim xiii. 328 Unheralded cliff-lurking flaws.
1919 W. de la Mare Flora 33 On the cliff-ringed shore.
1927 R. Kipling Verse 1885–1926 729 The cliff-walled defiles.
1939 W. B. Yeats Last Poems 18 In some cliff-sheltered bay.
2004 Vancouver Province (Nexis) 31 Dec. 9 (caption) Military pilots struggled to drop food into cliff-rimmed villages along the ravaged coast of Sumatra.
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