| 单词 | next to hand |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnext to hand d. As the subject complement with verbs of rest or motion. Frequently in next to hand. ΚΠ c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 1502 (MED) Glose..sate next. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 164 Deide to vs approachis neist. c1574–5 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 153 He put his hand into his pockit and pullid owt..sutch moony..as cam next to hande. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 2. ⁋4 Next to Sir Andrew in the Club-Room sits Captain Sentry. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 509. ¶8 Mr. Hobson,..when a Man came for a Horse,..obliged him to take the Horse which stood next to the Stable-Door. 1741–3 J. Wesley Jrnl. (1749) 95 Men, women and children met together, to..play at chuck, ball, span-farthing, or whatever came next to hand. 1794 W. Godwin Caleb Williams I. vii. 152 [They] had supplied themselves with whatever tools came next to hand. 1917 Amer. Hist. Rev. 22 829 The Filipino..has too often neglected what lay next to hand. a1941 V. Woolf Solid Objects in Haunted House (1967) 79 A readiness to take up with something new—whatever it may be that comes next to hand. < as lemmas |
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