单词 | night-bound |
释义 | > as lemmasnight-bound night-bound adj. confined or impeded by night or darkness. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [adjective] > detained by night or darkness night-bounda1879 the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > enveloped in dark of night > confined by night or darkness night-bounda1879 a1879 F. R. Havergal Poet. Wks. (1884) I. 146 Reason waits, Like those in days of yore, Who rose not from their night-bound place, On dark Egyptian shore. 1925 A. S. M. Hutchinson One Increasing Purpose i. xxvi. 161 As if the phrase were a path on which, nightbound and groping, he suddenly had stumbled. 1954 L. MacNeice Autumn Sequel 123 From my seat I see my night-bound double, slumped apart On a conveyor belt. < as lemmas |
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