| 单词 | o'nights |
| 释义 | > as lemmaso'nights (d) o'nights = at nights at Phrases 2c(c). Now chiefly Scottish and archaic. ΚΠ 1606 Wily Beguilde 21 Sheele run out of nights a dancing, and come no more home till day peepe. 1823 C. Lamb in London Mag. Dec. 615/1 I have nothing but water in my head o' nights since this frightful accident. 1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables xix. 312 He's a kind of person..that seldom breaks his habits, or stays out o'nights. 1895 T. Hardy Jude i. iii. 23 Yes, 'tis a serious-minded place. Not but there's wenches in the streets o' nights. 1902 J. Conrad Heart of Darkness i, in Youth 96 The pilgrims used to..empty every rifle they could lay hands on at him. Some had even sat up o' nights for him. 1925 Amer. Mercury May 109/2 If all Americans were like us, the spies of the Department of Justice could sleep easy o' nights. 1973 Stornoway Gaz. 2 June 4/3 Maybe you're sleeping soundly o' nights, dreaming of all your frisky lambs and ewes on the surging reseeds. < as lemmas |
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