| 单词 | earth-creeping |
| 释义 | > as lemmasearth-creeping C6. In other adverbial uses, with the sense ‘to or towards the earth’, ‘over or through the earth’, as earth-bowed, earth-burrower, earth-creeping, earth-plodder, earth-turned, etc. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. L3 So earth-creeping a mind, that it cannot lift it selfe vp, to looke to the sky of Poetry. 1618 R. Brathwait Good Wife sig. F Earth-turn'd, mole-ei'd, flesh-hook, that puls vs hence. 1793 G. Butt Poems II. 191 Cunning's earth-bent eye By gold's attraction turn'd from Truth awry. 1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 61 With every earthlent ray of every star Holy and special influences are. a1864 N. Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) I. 218 Weary earth-plodders. 1883 Longman's Mag. Dec. 162 The mole is an earth-burrower. 1922 F. S. Marvin Western Races & World i. 23 The earth-bowed serf of Europe, the murdered slave of Africa. 1987 F. Jackson & P. Moore Life in Universe (new ed.) iv. 89 It seems that the crust on the far side of the Moon is thicker than that on the Earth-turned side. 1993 A. J. M. Shamon Three Steps to Sanctity i. 15 We are by nature both earth-bent and me-centered. < as lemmas |
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