单词 | spray-like |
释义 | > as lemmasspray-like C2. spray-based, spray-clouded, spray-dabbled, spray-decked, spray-haired, spray-spangled, spray-topped, spray-wet adjs.; spray-like adj. and adv. Π 1832 W. Motherwell Witches' Joys in Poems iv Every labouring wave..Gives them a ghastly lover To wring their white hands over, And tear their spray-wet hair In the madness of despair. 1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 158 The failing of a fountain's spray-topt stream. 1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 233 The legitimate rain-cloud, with its ragged spray-like edges. 1849 C. J. Lever Horace Templeton xx His fair brown hair spray-washed and floating back with the breeze. 1859 K. Cornwallis Panorama New World I. 7 The spray-decked waters of the Sound. 1861 E. T. Holland in Peaks, Passes, & Glac. 2nd Ser. I. 21 The one [stream] was broken and feathered in many a spray-spangled fountain. 1895 W. B. Yeats Poems 210 With blown, spray-dabbled hair. 1930 R. Campbell Adamastor 74 The rocks, spray-clouded, are your signal guns. 1939 D. Thomas Map of Love 4 Spray-based and rock-chested sea. 1956 P. Larkin Less Deceived (ed. 3) 38 Rain patters on a floor that tilts and sighs. Fast-running floors, collapsing into hollows, Tower suddenly, spray-haired. < as lemmas |
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