单词 | without fighting a stroke |
释义 | > as lemmaswithout fighting a stroke ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > peace > non-belligerency > [adverb] > without fighting without (any) stroke (of sword)c1400 without (a) stroke (or a blow) stricken1598 without fighting a stroke1720 the world > life > death > manner of death > die in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > die violently > not without (any) stroke (of sword)c1400 α. β. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. 136 Fra þe wache was slane þe remanent war sone opprest and randerit but ony straik.1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 213 Tha tynt the feild but straik of sword or knyfe.a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 88 Stout Oliver was without strack tackin, fleing full manfully.c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 211 The Lord Oboyne..seing thair cullouris vpone the brig, takis the flight schamefullie, but straik of suord or ony vther kynd of vassallage.c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xxv. 260 Thanne the Cristene men wenten..and hire enemyes enclosed and confounded in Derknesse, with outen ony strok. c1460 Contn. Brut 491 Many other townes in Normandie gafe þeme ouer with-out stroke or siege. c1460 Contn. Brut 507 At Bedford, on Ashtwesday, wer iij men murthred without strok, by falling doun of a steir. a1605 R. Birrel Diarey 23 in J. G. Dalyell Fragm. of Scotish Hist. (1798) Bot quhen he came, they yat ver vithin fled, sua yat hes Maiestie entred and tooke ye toune and castell vithout stroke of suord. 1645 R. Baillie Let. 25 Apr. (1841) II. 262 A great many honest burgesses were killed,..many were bursten in the flight, and dyed without stroak. 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 54 Suetonius writes that Claudius found heer no resistance, and that all was done without stroke: but this seems not probable. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 159 This Murteza Basha, without stroke of Sword made himself master of Bassora. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 282 We marched away without fighting a Stroke. < as lemmas |
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