| 单词 | mischief-doing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmischief-doing mischief-doing adj. and n. now rare ΚΠ 1687 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 275 Those devilish murdering, mischief-doing engines called bombs. 1692 ‘J. Curate’ Sc. Presbyterian Eloquence iii. 106 Ede, has thou been at Barne-breaking, Ede? [margin] Mischief doing. 1795 C. Este Journ. Flanders, Brabant, & Germany 200 They may raise offensive sensations, like the monsters who have devoured one another on the Ohio, at their horrid quantity of mischief-doing power. 1830 W. Scott Ivanhoe (new ed.) I. ii. 38 The guards and mischief-doing satellites of the wicked Baron. 1856 National Mag. Jan. 75/1 A lump of white chalk—a substance considered now-a-days almost invariably ominous of mischief-doing in the hands of a boy. 1900 T. Roosevelt in St. Nicholas May 573/1 I do not believe in mischief-doing in school hours, or in the kind of animal spirits that results in making bad scholars. < as lemmas |
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