单词 | sleep-twisted |
释义 | > as lemmassleep-twisted C3. With past participles, as sleep-bedeafened, sleep-bound, sleep-created, sleep-dazed, sleep-dewed, sleep-drowned, sleep-twisted, etc.; also with participial adjectives, as sleep-drunk. ΚΠ 1605 P. Woodhouse Flea (1877) 11 The glut'nous Wolfe; and the sleep-fatted Beare. 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 20 Blew Gladiols iuce, Where-with her sleep-swolne heavie lids she glewes. 1631 F. Quarles Hist. Samson 43 Whose softer language, by degrees, did wake His fathers sleepe-bedeafned eares. 1702 C. Beaumont J. Beaumont's Psyche (new ed.) vi. ccxlii. 83 To break her sleep-inthralled Spouse's chains. 1792 R. Cumberland Calvary (1803) II. 57 'Twas the voice As of a spirit..sleep-created in the troubled ear Of conscience. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound i. i. 20 Three thousand years of sleep-unsheltered hours. 1841 J. G. Whittier in Knickerbocker May 369 Bend o'er us now, as over them, And set our sleep-bound spirits free. 1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 107 The recovering breath of earth, sleep-drowned. 1889 Cent. Dict. Sleep-drunk. 1894 H. Nisbet Bush Girl's Romance 148 While his sleep-filled eyes looked on..the morning. 1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart iii. v. 417 He..saw in a sleep~bound way how specious wisdom was. 1951 A. Koestler Age of Longing i. iii. 41 Sleep-drunk and frightened, Hydie begins to cry. 1954 A. Koestler Invisible Writing iv. xxxvii. 394 Sleep-dazed, he is unable to decide which of the two hostile dictators is reaching out for him this time. 1960 T. Hughes Lupercal 21 Our lantern's little orange flare Made a round mask of our each sleep-dazed face. 1960 S. Plath Colossus 39 Sleep-twisted sheets. < as lemmas |
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