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单词 death-pale
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death-pale
d. Similative, and in adverbial relations of various other kinds (chiefly with adjectives and participles), with the sense ‘in, of, for, to, with, or as death’, as death-cold, death-devoted, death-pale, death-weary, etc. See also death-sick adj., deathworthy adj.
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OE Andreas (1932) 1314 Þa com..morðres manfrea myrce gescyrded, deoful deaðreow.
OE Beowulf (2008) 2125 Noðer hy hine ne moston..deaðwerigne, Denia leode, bronde forbærnan, ne on bel [altered in MS to bęl] hladan leofne mannan.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 10436 & tiss dæþshildiȝ mann þatt crist Toc i þe laffdiȝ Marȝe Wass uss full wel..bitacnedd.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 68 What makes a number of our wanton wiues in London, conspyre the deaths of theyr old doting husbands, but the discontent of a death-cold bed?
1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue vi. 210 So, the Saint-Thief, which suffered with our Saviour Was led to Life by his Death-due Behaviour.
1632 J. Vicars tr. Virgil XII Aeneids i. 13 Her deare unburied spouses gastly sprite To her appear'd, shew'd his thin death-pale face.
1702 Hymns for Family 110 Thou dost, in answer to our prayer, A death-devoted victim spare.
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 11 This Death-deep Silence, and incumbent Shade.
1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes II. iv. xiv. 243 The death-devoted breast.
1776 W. J. Mickle tr. L. de Camoens Lusiad 350 Death-doom'd man.
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc x. 596 The death-pale face.
1796 T. Townshend Poems 105 What tho' the sigh or wailing voice Can't soothe the death-cold ear.
1834 E. Elliott Poems II. 5 With only one star..in the death-black firmament.
1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 9 Like Asher's death-great monarch.
1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 259 I can death-doom him as I please.
1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 242 To death-deaf Carthage shout in vain.
1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life iii. 34 All the floors..are death-cold in winter.
1874 J. Thomson City of Dreadful Night (1880) x. 27 Deathstill, lifesweet, with folded palms she lay.
1896 H. L. Tangye In New S. Afr. ii. vi. 362 Only one besides myself failed..to put in an appearance either at Bow Street or before the death-condemning judge at Pretoria.
1921 W. de la Mare Veil & Other Poems 91 Rouse the Old Enemy from his death-still swoon.
1932 E. Sitwell Bath 81 They will play with..their death-dark negro slave.
1957 R. Lehmann tr. J. Cocteau Holy Terrors (1966) 23 The last of the whirlwind passed, leaving him death-pale as before.
1983 D. Duane So you want to be Wizard? 211 In fire or in deathcold, still I am there.
2000 W. Monahan Light House xxxix. 193 Another wave came boiling in behind him, death-white, towering, blasting stones off the jetty.
2004 R. Scruton (title) Death-devoted heart: sex and the sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde.
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