| 单词 | hard-fortuned |
| 释义 | > as lemmashard-fortuned hard-fortuned adj. chiefly poetic (now rare) suffering or characterized by bad luck or difficult circumstances. ΚΠ 1599 R. Linche Fountaine Anc. Fiction sig. Oij The most afflicted and hard-fortuned companions of Vlisses [It. i compagni di Vlisse]. 1607 W. Alexander Trag. Croesus v. ii. sig. L4, in Monarchicke Trag. Whilst this famous Citie was distressed, What could become of the hard-fortun'd King? 1773 G. Howard Siege of Tamor v. 69 I have unduteous long indulg'd a passion, Yet chaste as snow, for an hard-fortun'd youth. 1878 Appleton's Jrnl. 5 395/2 Hard-fortuned Hamish, half blown of his breath with the height of the hill, Was white in the face. 1907 K. L. Bates Amer. Lit. iv. 164 The figures of his melodious tales are old-time Quakers persecuted for their witness,..hard-fortuned maidens like the witch's daughter and the Papist drudge, [etc.]. 1997 B. MacSweeney Bk. Demons 58 I feel the gutter twisting, hard-fortuned carrier of water and nitrates to the unholy earth. < as lemmas |
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