单词 | earth-long |
释义 | > as lemmasearth-long C4. Similative, as earth-long, earth-smelling, earth-wide, etc. See also earth-coloured adj. ΚΠ 1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. sig. C3 With fleecy wooll, that hung on earth-low brakes. 1864 R. S. Hawker Quest Sangraal 4 The Earthwide Judge, Pilate the Roman. 1893 B. Carman Low Tide on Grand Pré (1894) 85 I watched her earth-brown eyes grow glad. 1935 C. Day Lewis Time to Dance & Other Poems 55 Earth-long and heaven-outfacing woes. 1988 L. Hogan Savings 69 In the old days she was a god living in dark furrows of earth-smelling earth. 2004 L. Erdrich Four Souls (2005) xi. 139 The cool winey air, earth scented and moldy, rushed at my face as I slipped inside. < as lemmas |
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