单词 | earth-vexing |
释义 | > as lemmasearth-vexing (a) With present participles, as earth-destroying, earth-devouring, earth-embracing, earth-refreshing, earth-treading, earth-vexing, etc. ΚΠ 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. ii. 23 Earth treadding stars, that make darke heauen light. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. v. 136 This earth-vexing smart. View more context for this quotation 1627 M. Drayton Moone-calfe in Battaile Agincourt 156 The earrh [sic] refreshing Sunne..his golden head doth runne, Farre vnder vs. a1649 W. Drummond Wks. (1711) 33/2 The Earth, and Earth-embracing Sea, did Shake. a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) I. 24 High, and purged Soules Leave Time and Place, to dull earthporing fooles. 1683 J. Mason Spiritual Songs xxx. 66 Fear not the Trumps Earth-rending Sound, Dread not the Day of Doom. 1748 A. Dutto Hints Glory of Christ 38 Was ever Love like this? Oh Heaven-astonishing, Earth-amazing, and Hell-confounding Love? 1755 J. Grainger Ode Solitude iii. 7 Rapt earth-gazing Resvery, Blushing artless..Modesty, Seek the solitary Wild. 1797 Parnassian Garland 13 Is there a State,..Who..Mocks the wide waste of earth-devouring Time? 1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III xci. 50 The peak Of earth-o'ergazing mountains. 1822 J. G. Lockhart Life Cervantes in P. A. Motteux tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. p. lix The shrewd, earth-seeking, yet affectionate Sancho. 1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 108 The sacrificial ox, Earth-embleming. 1883 Proctor in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 566 The earth-fashioning power of vulcanian forces. 1886 R. A. Proctor in 19th Cent. May 692 A special earth-crossing family of Comets. a1959 E. Muir Coll. Poems (1984) 259 What present anguish Drew that long dirge from the earth-haunting marvel? 1970 Science 2 Jan. 12/3 Waste products of Soviet and American launches..wander in earth-circling or deep space orbits. 2002 Wicazo Sa Rev. 17 237 Technology..is the earth-destroying work of the white man. < as lemmas |
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