单词 | death's bell |
释义 | > as lemmasdeath's bell b. Where modern English more usually has an attributive use of the simple noun, as death's bed, death's bell, death's blow, death's day (cf. deathbed n., etc.). Now chiefly literary. [With death's day compare Old Icelandic dauðadagr.] ΚΠ OE Wærferð tr. Gregory Dialogues (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) iv. xx. 291 Þa þa þysne halgan wer nydde se deaþes dæg to ðam utgange of lichaman, manige men hi gesomnodon. c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) 225 Þet dreori dede..ȝeueð þet deaðes dunt. ?c1422 T. Hoccleve Ars Sciendi Mori l. 538 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 198 Thogh thow seeke in thy bed now lye, Be nat agast, no dethes euel haast thow. 1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 29 When as he..lay vpon his deathes bed. 1597 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) viii. xliii. 205 His Vnkindnes in her Deaths-Scene. 1600 Englands Helicon sig. Z.2v Thirsis the Sheepheard his deaths song. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 330 But, since his sinne, the woefull wretch findes none..Beast, mountaine, valley, sea-gate, shoare or hauen, But beares his Deaths-doombe openly ingrauen. 1616 T. Scot 2nd Pt. Philomythie sig. A4 He hunts for our destruction cheeres the hound.., Rings our shrill deaths bell with so fearefull blast, As charmes our ioynts to heare. 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 394 No new act of his in this change presents it selfe, but giues a deaths blow to our ancient loues. 1640 tr. J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Reserata (new ed.) xcvii. §964 Keeping a deaths-day as well as a birth-day. 1726 A. Smith Mem. Jonathan Wild 245 He knew no more what it was than of his Death's-Day. 1759 Choir Litany i. 33 in Litany Bk. Brought thee forth in his Death's Throes. 1762 New & Gen. Biogr. Dict. VII. 21 He was seized suddenly with his death's stroke, on the 15th of October, 1708. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. iii. 55 It was your gift, and that should, I own, have been enough to have made me keep to my death's day the poorest rag of it. 1900 J. M. Miller China, Yellow Peril at War with World xxvi. 439 Day and night, without rest,..the unfortunate missionary lay in the death's house. 1956 J. Besharov Imagery of Igor' Tale iv. 78 The living strings (swans)..emit not a death's song but a pean. 2009 J. R. Millichap Robert Penn Warren after Audubon i. 25 His father's cold sweat on his death's bed. < as lemmas |
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