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单词 cockatrice eye
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cockatrice eye
General use as a modifier, as in cockatrice egg, cockatrice eye, etc. Now chiefly figurative except in mythological or fantasy contexts.
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1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. xi. B He shal put his hande in to the Cockatryce denne.
a1671 T. Fairfax Short Mem. (1699) 103 The fruit of our hopes..prove as cockatrice eggs from whence so mischievous a brood should spring.
1764 Public Advertiser 25 May Are the proctors then to be blamed for crushing this cockatrice nest; this young Robin Hood factory?
1841 Penny Satirist 17 July That rich luxurious looking beauty—with cockatrice eyes, and every hair of her head a snake—for a birth in the knavy—eh?
1965 A. Davidson What Strange Stars & Skies 183 Slip me the Formula for the Transmutation of Borax Without the Use of Cockatrice-egg.
2011 G. M. Cummins Mahler Re-composed iii. 156 Gazing into the cockatrice eye of the camera like a brave little child condemned to death by an evil charm.
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