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单词 iron slumber
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iron slumber
7. Chiefly poetic. Designating an extremely deep sleep, esp. that of death. Chiefly in iron sleep, iron slumber.
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iron sleep1573
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deadness1607
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unlivingness1914
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1573 T. Bedingfield tr. G. Cardano Comforte ii. sig. Diiv Homer doth call it brasen slepe. Virgil yron slepe [L. somnum..ferreum], either of which importeth forgetfulnes of al thinges.
1604 T. Dekker Magnificent Entertainm. sig. F Detraction and Obliuion throw off their iron slumber.
1685 J. Dryden Threnodia Augustalis ii. 4 An Iron Slumber sate on his Majestick Eyes.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 144 An Iron Slumber shuts my swimming Eyes [L. conditque natantia lumina somnus.] . View more context for this quotation
1724 G. Jeffreys Edwin v. i. 60 Let Caduan, starting from his iron Sleep, Howl in my Ears, Usurper, Parricide; And then I will believe.
1757 W. Wilkie Epigoniad iii. 62 The touch divine his iron slumber broke.
1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi II. vi. v. 348 His face was still locked, as in a vice, with that iron sleep.
1895 W. B. Yeats Poems 50 So lived I and lived not..with creatures of dreams, In a long iron sleep.
1910 Forum Mar. 291 The clamors of the centuries can disturb all quiets but one—the quiet of the dead. Yet a voice is coming that shall break this iron repose.
1920 A. Noyes Elfin Artist 131 After all the loving, with lips and eyes a-light, Comes the iron slumber, and the endless night.
2009 M. Wickert tr. T. Tasso Liberation of Jerusalem iii. 51 He falls; his eyes, their lids scarce open, keep a gaze of stern repose and iron sleep.
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