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单词 many and many a
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many and many a
b. Preceding a or an in a noun phrase. (Sometimes reduplicated for emphasis, as many and many a, †many a many.) Cf. earlier many one adj. 1. Now literary.this many a (day, year): see this adj. 1e. many a time (and often): see time n., int., and conj. Phrases 5a.
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c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Laud) (1901) 1215 (MED) Ich aue hy go mani amyle.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) Prol. 75 Love, which doth many a wonder And many a wys man hath put under.
?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Petyt) (1996) i. 14776 Bledrik, Margadu, & Kadwan gadred oste of many a [a1450 Lamb. mania] man.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 56 Pendragon was ther deed, and many a-nother gode baron.
c1560 (a1500) Squyr Lowe Degre (Copland) 373 Many a page Have become men by mariage.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) i. i. 183 A foot of Honor better then I was, But many a many foot of Land the worse. View more context for this quotation
1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 34 To many a youth, and many a maid.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables xxxviii. 41 He's Beset with Enemies..the Meanest of which is not without Many and Many a Way to the Wreaking of a Malice.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 190 This Wall I was many a weary Month a finishing.
1804 R. Couper Poetry II. 67 Which for mony a mony year Hang on the reeky wa'.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. vi. ii. 444 Many a more unlikely thing has happened.
1853 M. Arnold Scholar Gipsy in Poems (new ed.) 206 When..many a scythe in sunshine flames.
1889 R. Browning Let. to Tennyson 5 Aug. In its hope that for many and many a year we may have your very self among us.
1928 Observer 12 Feb. 23 Such felts are..simple compared to many another which is complicated by endredeux.
1955 M. Wheeler Still Digging (1958) 163 Bowed shoulders and apprehensive glances showed an office working as it had not worked for many a long day.
1989 O. S. Card Prentice Alvin iii. 52 That road led through many a village and many a town.
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