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单词 to fly a pitch
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to fly a pitch
b. In figurative context and allusively. Esp. in to fly a pitch and variants. Obsolete.
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1590 J. Harington Disc. in Nugæ Antiquæ (1775) II. 51 Hee, having new furbusht vp an old coment, supposed to bee St. Awstens, flyes in a hye pitch, lyke a falcon with those fethers, that, if they wear pluckt, wold proove him but a woodcocke.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxiii. 24 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 93 Soe high a pitch their proud presumption flyes.
1656 A. Cowley Davideis ii. 48 in Poems To this strange pitch their high affections flew.
1718 Free-thinker No. 77. 1 He flies a Pitch above Common Mischiefs.
1781 W. Cowper Epist. to Lady Austen 16 The world, who knows No flights above the pitch of prose.
1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne vi. 182 Rabelais flew to a higher pitch, too, than Sterne.
1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iii. 292 Another [comedy], entitled Sergius..flies a much higher pitch.
1885 ‘E. Douglas’ Queen of Hid Isle iii. iii. 85 But soar above thy pitch, God and the soul in the thin air of Reason Give double aspects to thee.
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