单词 | death cry |
释义 | > as lemmasdeath cry death cry n. ΚΠ 1759 Crit. Rev. Nov. 404 The sacred fire was already extinguished by his order, and the death-cry communicated thro' all the villages. 1778 J. Carver Trav. N.-Amer. ix. 334 The number of the death-cries they give, declares how many of their own party are lost. 1899 R. Wildman Tales of Malayan Coast 43 It was the death cry of a wah-wah monkey facing the cruel jaws of a crocodile. 1944 P. W. Harsh Handbk. Classical Drama i. ii. 71 At the death cries of Agamemnon the chorus fall into ineffectual dissension. 2005 Los Angeles Mar. 156/1 Little Caesar..immortalized Edward G. Robinson right down to his strangled death cry—‘Mother of mercy, is this the end of Rico?’ < as lemmas |
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