单词 | sunday scene |
释义 | > as lemmasSunday scene c. With the sense ‘characteristic or reminiscent of Sunday’, as Sunday feeling, Sunday scene, etc. ΚΠ 1783 S. Gunning Coombe Wood (Dublin ed.) iv. 48 A large party, some in carriages, and some on horseback, passed by the gate... It was the first Sunday scene of this kind I ever saw exhibited in Darnly Dale. 1846 Forest Hill I. vi. 77 The Champs Elysées, with its many Sunday sights and sounds, so painfully startling to all English travellers when they first set foot upon the Continent. 1852 E. W. Benson Diary 5 June in A. C. Benson Life of E. W. Benson (1899) I. iii. 110 I have all the while I am there a perfect Sunday-feel. 1889 M. P. W. Smith Their Canoe Trip viii. 119 A Sunday sense of peace and quiet brooded over this remote nook. 1919 I. Zangwill Jinny the Carrier xii. 480 Fortunately ‘the Ridge’ lay downwards for him, and the crowds and the everyday bustle finally disillusioned him of his Sunday feeling. 1950 J. B. Pratt Eternal Values in Relig. ii. 55 The congregation should feel no sudden shock, no break with the past, and should be able..to weave around the new forms the old associations of ‘the Sunday feeling’. 2003 K. Cushman Rodzina viii. 137 The coffee reminded me of Papa's Sunday smell—a little bit coffee, some hair tonic, and the clean fragrance of a starched shirt. < as lemmas |
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