单词 | in myriads |
释义 | > as lemmasin myriads d. in myriads: in countless numbers. ΚΠ 1727 C. Pitt Poems & Transl. 145 To the Fight from Ægypt's fruitful Soil, Pour'd forth in Myriads all the Sons of Nile. 1762 W. Falconer Shipwreck i. 4 Where winged deaths, in dreadful myriads, fly. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 84 The Leming..is often seen to pour down in myriads from the northern mountains. 1847 H. W. Longfellow Evangeline ii. 98 Water-lilies in myriads rocked on the slight undulations Made by the passing oars. 1894 19th Cent. Sept. 436 Scavenger crabs which line this coast in myriads. 1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. xvi. 343 The very small seeds, produced in myriads, germinate below ground. 1970 P. O'Brian Master & Commander (new ed.) ix. 277 I might have..beheld the ibis, the Mareotic grallatores in their myriads. < as lemmas |
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