单词 | toil-hardened |
释义 | > as lemmastoil-hardened C2. Instrumental, as toil-hardened, toil-stained, etc. See also toil-worn adj. ΚΠ 1730 J. Thomson Autumn in Seasons 181 The toil-invigorate youth, Not needing the melodious impulse. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. vii. 410 Ulysses toil-inured his words Exulting heard. 1832 T. Carlyle Misc. Ess. (1847) III. 179 Toil-grimed sons of Tubalcain. 1839 T. Carlyle Chartism x. 99 The toilwon conquest of his own brothers. 1876 S. S. Cox Why we Laugh xii. 214 The toil-browned, barefooted daughter of a taxed Kentucky constituent. 1890 R. Kipling in St. James's Gaz. 28 Apr. 190 They strove to stand to attention, to straighten the toil-bowed back. 1907 G. Parker Weavers ix The slave and the toil-ridden fellah. 1948 R. Chandler Let. 7 May (1987) 116 Their toil-hardened hands tightened convulsively into knots of bone and sinew. 1952 R. Campbell tr. C. Baudelaire Poems 127 And toil-bent workmen groping to their bed. 2007 J. F. McGlinchy Canal Boy x. 176 He wore a toil-stained shirt, buttonless and half hanging out of his belt. < as lemmas |
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