单词 | fiery-bright |
释义 | > as lemmasfiery-bright a. Adverbial, as fiery-bright, fiery hot, fiery-red, fiery-sparkling, etc. ΚΠ a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xi. xiii. 591 Whanne firy hoot iren [L. ferrum ignitum] is quenchid in water. c1450 in Mod. Philol. (1924) 21 393 (MED) Rubies flesshly fyry rede. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. vi. sig. Pvv The eien firye Bright. 1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus sig. Kv Mars..Mounted vpon his firie-shining waine. 1613 W. Drummond Teares Death Meliades Mong..fierie twinckling gleames Of warme vermilion swords. 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 212 Which fierie-rash temper of his. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 335 Such Fiery-hot Reverberatories of Self-pretensions to Religion. a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 350 The Cyclops' eye so fiery fierce. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 108 Fiery-short was Cyril's counter-scoff. 1889 G. Massey My Lyrical Life II. 304 His fiery-flaming two-edged sword, Which at each door and window waves and burns. 1977 M. S. K. Baluch Lit. Hist. Baluchis I. iii. 81 Both these fiery kindled war-lords tried the edge and energy of their sword for about three decades. 2007 D. Rainbolt Ghost Cats ii. 22 This fiery-sparkling tendency [sc. of cats' fur]..probably led the superstitious medieval people to regard the unfortunate creature as..Satan's companion. < as lemmas |
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