| 单词 | from forth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfrom forth (b) Followed, more or less pleonastically, by a preposition of similar meaning, in from out, from out of, from forth, from off or from off of, where each preposition serves to strengthen or supplement the sense of the other. ΚΠ 1489 King Henry VII in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 657 This day aftre High Masse comyth vnto vs from oute of Bretayne..oon of oure pursiuantes, that ratifieth the newes of the seid Lord Malpertuis, which ben these. a1593 C. Marlowe Massacre at Paris (c1600) sig. B6v His soule is fled from out his breast. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. viii. 64 [A principle] drawne from out of the very bowels of heauen and earth. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. i. 142 I will choose Mine heyre from forth the Beggers of the world. View more context for this quotation 1632 G. Hughes Saints Losse 51 Know ye not that God hath taken away your captaine from off your heads this day? 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite iii, in Fables 68 Knights unhors'd may rise from off the Plain. 1773 G. White Let. 26 Mar. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 152 From out of the side of this bed leaped an animal. 1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in Lamia & Other Poems 98 While he from forth the closet brought a heap [etc.]. 1841 App. to Congress. Globe Jan. 66/2 The cession clause, by which we get the heavy, crushing, Federal foot from off of our necks. 1887 A. Birrell Obiter Dicta 2nd Ser. 150 Ready to engage with all comers on all subjects from out the stores of his accumulated knowledge. 1957 Boys' Life July 17/2 A wave swept in at him ‘from out of nowhere’ and proved to be a shore-breaker. 1992 A. Thorpe Ulverton ix. 196 It do kip the wolf from off of our door. 2017 J. Cohen Moving Kings 187 The porch sagged bellylike from off its columns. < as lemmas |
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