单词 | dream-haunted |
释义 | > as lemmasdream-haunted C3. Instrumental, as dream-awakened, dream-based, dream-born, dream-built, dream-created, dream-fed, dream-filled, dream-haunted, dream-ridden, etc., adjectives. ΚΠ 1631 W. Lisle Faire Æthiopian ix. 159 Me thinkes now dreameth this my dreame-borne childe. 1777 R. Potter tr. Æschylus Tragedies 238 Oft as short slumbers close his eyes..The dream-created [Gk. ὀνειρόφαντοι] visions rise. 1793 J. Pollock Lett. to Inhabitants Newry v. 202 Ever-waking avarice, dream-haunted ambition, and the perseveringly restless herd of agitators. 1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) ii. i. 57 Yet a few days and dream-perturbed nights, And I shall slumber well. 1829 R. Montgomery in London Lit. Gaz. 28 Feb. 147/3 In some dream-built palace of the night, Where angel-whispers make the spirit glow. 1836 Morning Post 22 Jan. Even a Whig Government could not be so silly or so shameless as to propound such an object of inquiry, except to a dream-ridden utilitarian, like Mr. Bentham. 1858 Press 29 May 511/3 It is with such tawdry embellishments that a dream-fed imagination decks a very trivial incident. 1899 W. B. Yeats Wind among Reeds 35 Unknown spears Suddenly hurtle before my dream-awakened eyes. 1930 T. S. Eliot Ash-Wednesday 20 The dreamcrossed twilight between birth and dying. 1932 A. MacLeish Conquistador i. 18 We stared as dream-awakened men in wonder. 1938 W. de la Mare Memory & Other Poems 84 Her dream-ridden eyes. 1979 B. Dean Wellspring xiii. 189 I fall into a dream-filled sleep. 2008 New Yorker 23 June 15/1 Its puzzle-like construction, dream-based interludes, and cryptic asides go far beyond the plot. < as lemmas |
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