单词 | absent hour |
释义 | > as lemmasabsent hour c. Originally and chiefly poetic. Of a period of time (as absent hour, absent time, etc.): during which a person is away. ΚΠ 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 2nd Pt. sig. G2 How haue ye spent your absent time from me? a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iv. 171 Louers absent houres, More tedious then the diall. View more context for this quotation 1684 A. Behn Love-lett. between Noble-man & Sister 292 I am going from thee—when are we like to meet—oh, how shall I support my absent hours! 1720 L. Theobald Richard II i. 6 I'm glad to think nor absent Hours, Nor bustling War, cou'd from thy gen'rous Breast Erase the Mem'ry of that beauteous Maid. 1745 M. Akenside Odes on Several Subj. vii. 30 So soon again to meet the fair? So pensive all this absent hour? a1809 A. Seward Poet. Wks (1810) I. 27 Yet, yet my soul might better bear These absent weeks forlorn, Did not presaging clouds of fear Lour on thy wish'd return. 1892 ‘V. Fane’ Poems II. 98 I strain not after gold..,nor care to while The absent hour with pleasures that beguile. 1957 R. Mezey in D. Hall et al. New Poets Eng. & Amer. 226 A simpler thing, a chair, or the very room, Recalls her presence in her absent hours. 1999 T. J. Fleming Duel x. 208 Where was he during those absent weeks? 2004 J. Morgan Passion 320 She..had reason to believe that he was amusing himself with actresses, dancers, &c., during these absent hours. < as lemmas |
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