单词 | battle-plain |
释义 | > as lemmasbattle-plain C2. attributive with noun, as battle-day, battle-din, battle fleet, battle-front, battle-hymn, battle-line, battle-order, battle-painter, battle-picture, battle-place, battle-plain, battle-practice (also attributive), battle-rank, battle-shout, battle-smoke, battle-song, battle-training, battle-zone, and poetical combinations without limit. ΚΠ 1701 London Gaz. 3694/4 Mr. Alexander van Gaalon, the Battel-Painter. 1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. xxx. 361 Last of my race, on battle-plain That shout shall ne'er be heard again! 1814 Ld. Byron Lara ii. x. 947 The battle-day They could encounter as a veteran may. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iv. xxx. 169 To wreak thy wrongs in battle-line. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. viii. 95/2 The steel Host, that yelled in fierce battle-shouts at Issus and Arbela. 1862 J. W. Howe in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 145 Battle Hymn of the Republic. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: [etc.]. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. iv. 12 The battle-din was loud. 1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold iii. i. 87 A ghostly horn Blowing continually, and faint battle-hymns. 1897 Trans. Inst. Naval Architects 38 50 These two ships form still part of the German battle fleet. 1898 R. Kipling Fleet in Being ii. 17 That a cruiser at 7.30 that morning had reported to the Battle Fleet..‘Enemy to the Westward’. 1899 R. Meinertzhagen Diary 1 July (1960) 15 The hopelessly out-of-date battle-training of my battalion. 1900 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 931/2 No amount of battle-smoke can hide the red stain of pure unadulterated murder. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 6 Jan. 4/3 So long as our battle-fleet is able to keep the seas. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 13 Aug. 6/2 Rear-Admiral Domvile himself cannot get a battle fleet ready until four a.m., twenty hours after Wilson has started. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 20 June 2/2 Battle-practice has for 1905 been ordered on more regular and practical lines than hitherto. 1909 Westm. Gaz. 9 Feb. 1/2 Mr. Solano, the inventor of the new system of battle-practice targets, which has received the approval of the War Office. 1914 Scotsman 6 Oct. 4/1 The latest news from the two great battle-fronts affords no ground for dissatisfaction. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 May 399/3 Soult..decided to make the main defence in the rear line, turning this into the ‘battle zone’, as it was called in France in 1918. 1937 A. Koestler Spanish Test. iv. 82 Every town along the enemy's line of retreat and all the areas behind the enemy lines are to be considered as battle zones. 1940 W. Temple Thoughts in War-time vii. 43 If we pray as Christ taught us to pray, we pray in perfect unity on both sides of the battle-front. 1944 Ann. Reg. 1943 19 In training the most notable innovation had been the introduction of realistic battle training. 1948 E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxx. 76 Following the Battle Hymn of the Republic. < as lemmas |
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