| 单词 | on or upon spray |
| 释义 | > as lemmason or upon (the) spray c. In the poetic phrase on or upon (the) spray. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > part of tree or woody plant > [adverb] > on or upon twigs on or upon (the) sprayc1386 c1386 G. Chaucer Sir Thopas 59 The wodedowue vp on the spray She sang ful loude & clere. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvi. 64 This wes in the moneth of may, Quhen byrdis syngis on the spray. 1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 185 A saill als quhite as blossum vpon spray. 1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 1412 How her ble was bryght as blossom on the spray. 1893 F. Thompson Poems 66 Oh, there were flowers in Storrington On the turf and on the spray. 1914 T. Hardy Satires of Circumstance 20 When I set out for Lyonnesse, A hundred miles away, The rime was on the spray. 1921 W. de la Mare Veil & Other Poems 19 Thrush and robin perched mute on spray. < as lemmas |
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