单词 | black as night |
释义 | > as lemmasblack (also dark, etc.) as night c. In comparisons, as black (also dark, etc.) as night. ΚΠ c1390 (?a1300) Stations of Rome (Vernon) (1867) i. l. 194 (MED) Þou most take Candel liht, Elles þou gost Merk as niht [v.r. as derk as nyȝt]. a1400 (c1300) Northern Homily: Serm. on Gospels (Coll. Phys.) in Middle Eng. Dict. at Mirk(e He..makid briht The trowthe that ar was mirk als niht. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 1725 (MED) And sodeynly þe wedir, dirke as nyȝt, With new lyȝt by grace gan adawe. a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington) (1965) 11562 (MED) Þe sunne shal lese his light And by-come derke as night. 1565 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) ix. sig. IIjv And gastly syghtes of fyre doe flashe, from cloudes as darke as night. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. i. 15 Yong Gentlemen would be as sad as night Onely for wantonnesse. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 308 His look Drew audience and attention still as Night . View more context for this quotation a1678 A. Marvell Epit. in Misc. Poems (1681) 72 Gentle as Ev'ning; cool as Night. 1759 W. Mason Caractacus 71 Silent, as night, that wrapt us in her veil, We pac'd up yonder hill. 1795 J. Benson in Mem. (1892) 284 They were all as silent and serious as night. 1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III lxxv. 40 Her eyelashes, though dark as night, were tinged. 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 282 One black chicken..black as night and as silent..went to roost. 1893 Earl of Dunmore Pamirs I. 4 Their hair..was as black as night. 1911 J. M. Barrie Peter & Wendy viii. 125 It was not..that night had come, but something as dark as night had come. 1956 N. Algren Walk on Wild Side i. 109 It was night bright as day, it was day dark as night. 1993 C. Fowler Red Bride (BNC) 325 At 8.00 a.m. the clouds above the town were as black as night. < as lemmas |
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