单词 | thaw-swamped |
释义 | > as lemmasthaw-swamped attributive and in other combinations, as thaw-rain, thaw-time, thaw-water, thaw-wind (cf. German tauwind); thaw-cold, thaw-cloven, thaw-swamped adjs. ΚΠ a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 335 In the minute in which they began to march [on the ice], a thaw wind blew very fresh. 1814 Ld. Byron in L. Hunt Autobiog. (1850) II. 318 I have been snow-bound and thaw-swamped..for nearly a month. 1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. iii. 78 A howl Of cataracts from their thaw-cloven ravines. 1820 P. B. Shelley Vision of Sea in Prometheus Unbound 175 It splits like the ice when the thaw-breezes blow. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House iii. 15 She gave me one cold parting kiss upon my forehead, like a thaw-drop from the stone porch. 1890 R. L. Stevenson Let. to H. James 29 Dec. My theories melt, and..the thaw-waters wash down my writing. 1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 156 They are the flowers of ice-vivid mortification, thaw-cold, ice-corrupt blossoms. 1947 K. M. Wells Owl Pen (1950) v. xiii. 76 He bumped and slithered over the ice the thaw had laid bare. He splashed through thaw water. 1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 23 July 926/3 Lush new green and blue sky reflected in the thaw-waters. < as lemmas |
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