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单词 fiery-footed
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fiery-footed
b. Parasynthetic, as fiery-faced, fiery-footed, fiery-tempered, fiery-winged, etc.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > going swiftly on foot > [adjective] > performed with or accompanied by running > swift of foot
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fiery-footed1565
fleet-foot1593
swift-foot1594
wind-foot1598
swift-footed1609
footed as (also like, with) the wind1612
fast-footed?1615
swift-heeled1634
fleet-footed1726
wind-footed1848
1565 B. Garter Tragicall Hist. Two Eng. Louers f. 44v That an other Phaeton sholde serue in Phoebus torn And that the fyery footed horse both sea and shore sholde bourne.
1585 A. Munday tr. L. Pasqualigo Fedele & Fortunio i. ii. sig. Biijv Clearer then Beauties fiery pointed beam: Or Ysie cruste of Christalles frosen stream. [No corresponding sentence in the Italian original.]
1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. E4v Euen from the fiery spangled baile of heauen.
1602 F. Davison et al. Poet. Rapsody sig. B12v With firy-hoofed steedes, Thou daily doe the steepy Welkin beate.
1641 Disc. conc. Puritans 15 Some fiery-spirited Ministers..did fancie to themselves a democratick forme of policy.
1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xx. 52 In aid of Troy..came, Mars fiery-helm'd [Gk. κορυθαίολος].
1746 W. Collins Odes 29 Whether the fiery-tressed Dane, Or Roman's self o'erturn'd the Fane.
1761 A. Murphy All in Wrong ii. 28 A smooth faced, fiery eyed, warm-complexioned, taper young fellow.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. xviii. 299 They..may cry and howl when they see the stoop of the flying and fiery-mouthed dragon.
1829 Times 1 July 3/6 A fiery-tempered woman..was remanded on a charge of having fractured the skull of another female with a blow of a broom-handle.
1846 G. Croly Mod. Orlando 7 Is not the world one fiery-wheeled machine?
1881 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 30 Apr. 6/7 A fiery-haired denizen of Pacific avenue, was arrested last night for picking..pockets.
1910 Times of India 1 Mar. 6 The Spirit of War represented by a fiery-winged horse.
1968 P. Lowther This Difficult Flowring 26 Always, like Eden's fiery-sworded guard, He damns me for my sin Of growing lids And muscled iris in my eyes.
1984 D. Cannell Thin Woman 243 I love the way you look in that fiery-coloured dress.
2009 J. Chamberlain Chinese Gods 224 Three large, fiery-visaged papier-mache figures survey the scene.
2014 Independent (Nexis) 31 Jan. 24 Some of us only have to hear the words ‘Bishop of Bath and Wells’ to conjure up an image of a fiery-faced degenerate on Blackadder.
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