单词 | above earth |
释义 | > as lemmasabove earth (also †mould) P1. above earth (also †mould): living, among the living, on earth; unburied. See also above ground adv. 2. Now rare. ΚΠ a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 195 (MED) Þe nes non abuuen eorðe him ilich on almesse. a1400 (?a1350) Seege Troye (Egerton) (1927) l. 37 (MED) Þe king of Troye haþ..Þe feirest þing aboue moolde..a shepes skyn of golde. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 849 (MED) His body, Yf it suld lang oboven erthe ly, It myght þe ayr swa corrumpud mak. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 383 (MED) Þies iiij brethur war onone streken..& rotid abown erde. ?1614 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses i. 8 Diuine Vlysses, yet, abides not dead Aboue earth, nor beneath; nor buried In any seas, (as you did late conceiue). 1877 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 10) ix. 131 Meanwhile, be it ours to hie Unstayed by aught above earth, or beneath. a1893 C. Sangster Edition Hitherto Uncollected Poems (1958) 198 The Sphinx is living, and not dead; No grotesque monster carved in stone, But soul and spirit, flesh and bone; Like nought above earth, or below. 1991 D. Gioia Gods of Winter 10 A lock of hair, a piece of an infant's birth cord, All that remains above earth of a first-born son. < as lemmas |
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