单词 | from off |
释义 | > as lemmasfrom off (b) Followed, more or less pleonastically, by a preposition of similar meaning, in from out, from out of, from forth, from off or from off of, where each preposition serves to strengthen or supplement the sense of the other. ΚΠ 1489 King Henry VII in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 657 This day aftre High Masse comyth vnto vs from oute of Bretayne..oon of oure pursiuantes, that ratifieth the newes of the seid Lord Malpertuis, which ben these. a1593 C. Marlowe Massacre at Paris (c1600) sig. B6v His soule is fled from out his breast. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. viii. 64 [A principle] drawne from out of the very bowels of heauen and earth. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. i. 142 I will choose Mine heyre from forth the Beggers of the world. View more context for this quotation 1632 G. Hughes Saints Losse 51 Know ye not that God hath taken away your captaine from off your heads this day? 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite iii, in Fables 68 Knights unhors'd may rise from off the Plain. 1773 G. White Let. 26 Mar. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 152 From out of the side of this bed leaped an animal. 1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 98 While he from forth the closet brought a heap [etc.]. 1841 App. to Congress. Globe Jan. 66/2 The cession clause, by which we get the heavy, crushing, Federal foot from off of our necks. 1887 A. Birrell Obiter Dicta 2nd Ser. 150 Ready to engage with all comers on all subjects from out the stores of his accumulated knowledge. 1957 Boys' Life July 17/2 A wave swept in at him ‘from out of nowhere’ and proved to be a shore-breaker. 1992 A. Thorpe Ulverton ix. 196 It do kip the wolf from off of our door. 2017 J. Cohen Moving Kings 187 The porch sagged bellylike from off its columns. from off 2. from off, fro off: off from, off. Cf. sense A. 13. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > in the direction of [preposition] > away from offeOE fromwardsc1000 from offlOE frowardsc1175 fromward?c1225 lOE Canterbury Psalter i. 4 Tanquam pulvis quem proicit ventus a faciae terrae : swa þet dust þet se wind aworpet from of ansine eorþan. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 25596 (MED) Ihesus, þou was tane fra of þe crosse. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. iii. sig. Ee4v Shall..Quite from th'earth [Faults Escaped; ‘of the earth’], their memory be raste? a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) i. i. 145 Would I might neuer stirre from off this place. View more context for this quotation 1655 J. Phillips Satyr against Hypocrites 20 And then she shook the crums From off her apron white, and pickt her gums. 1718 A. Ramsay Christ's-kirk on Green iii. xvi I'se rive frae off ye'r hips the hool. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 135 Wiping them [sc. tears] away from off the cheeks of the first and fairest of women. 1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto II lxxxviii. 163 As if to win a part from off the weight He saw increasing on his father's heart. 1842 D. Vedder Poems 84 Slates an' tiles, frae aff the houses, On the causey crown played smash. 1845 ‘Bon Gaultier’ Ballads 90 He lighted down from off his steed. 1923 Edinb. Evening News 29 Mar. 7/3 Pu' a bit heather frae off the Pentlands. 1952 ‘C. S. Forester’ Lieutenant Hornblower xv. 217 Hornblower extended his hand and picked a thread of oakum from off Buckland's lapel. 1998 R. Antoni World of Canes in S. Brown & J. Wickham Oxf. Bk. Caribbean Short Stories (1999) 407 Mr. Bootman would pick up the nuniforms from off the ships in the harbour. < as lemmas |
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