| 单词 | noon of night |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(the) noon of night a. The time of night corresponding to midday; midnight. Frequently in (the) noon of night. Cf. noontide n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > night > [noun] > midnight midnighteOE middle nighteOE noontide1568 noon1605 witching hour1762 long hour1807 midnight1813 midnight-tide1918 zero hour1939 1605 B. Jonson Sejanus v. i. 325 Sei. When arriu'd you? Mac. About the noone of Night. View more context for this quotation 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. 55 While mischeifs,..At noone of Night are a working. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 318 Hoary Simples,..With brazen Sickles reap'd at Noon of Night. 1747 T. Warton Pleasures of Melancholy 6 Nor undelightful is the solemn noon Of night. 1796 J. Moser Hermit of Caucasus I. 21 At the noon of night their ears were assailed by the..sound of a trumpet. a1822 P. B. Shelley Witch of Atlas xlvii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 44 When the weary moon was in the wane, Or in the noon of interlunar night. 1867 J. Ingelow Dreams that came True xliv For the moon Was shining in, and night was at the noon. 1886 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. We sat conversing and carousing in companionage till the noon of the night. 1928 F. C. Mason Unchanging Mask 36 Why would he come at the noon of night When my hands were cold? 1992 S. Barker Guarding Border 76 Someone who will relieve what I am told is my loneliness And make love..every night, at noon. < as lemmas |
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