单词 | of hers |
释义 | > as lemmasof hers a. of hers: that is (or are) hers; belonging to her (see of prep. 32). N.E.D. (1898) included quot. a1387 at hero n. 1, misinterpreting it as showing ‘verse of heroes, the hexameter’ (cf. heroic adj. 2a). ΚΠ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 401 Sibille Eritria..wroot moche of Criste..as in þis vers of heroes [c1400 Tiber. heores; L. ejus]. 1478 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 613 Aftyr the dyssease of a steppe-modyr of hyrs. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cccxxiv/2 This lady..buryed them secretely in a felde of heerys. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxii. 591 Cicero..maketh mention of Sibils Acrosticke , that is to say, of certeyne verses of hirs whose first letters made the name of that King. a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §293 302 These her eleemosinary acts of hers are almost vanished. 1706 tr. J. B. Morvan de Bellegarde Refl. upon Ridicule 244 Her Fondness for a Spark of hers was scurvily interpreted. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1781 II. 378 Johnson: She is the first woman in the world could she but restrain that wicked tongue of hers. 1826 Lit. Lounger July 305 People may say what they please, but that book of hers is a dreadful show up. 1866 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 3 Nov. 3/1 A friend of hers, another ‘moll’, got an inkling of the ‘stake’ that had been made, and wanted a ‘rake’. 1911 J. M. Barrie Peter & Wendy vii. 113 It was all especially entrancing to Wendy, because those rampagious boys of hers gave her so much to do. 2000 G. Lucas Star Wars Episode I: Phantom Menace 119 We are sending all available troops to meet this army of hers assembling near the swamp. < as lemmas |
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