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单词 a spell ago
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a spell ago
d. for a spell, for a time. In U.S. without preposition; also a spell ago, some time ago.
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the world > time > duration > [adverb] > for a time
(for) a spacec1405
for a long, short, etc. season1465
a whilst1595
for a spell1745
the world > time > relative time > the past > past [phrase] > a while ago
a spell ago1745
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1834 C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing, Major xxx. 250 Mahogany was as cheap as pine boards was a spell ago.
c1850 ‘Dow, Jr.’ in W. Jerdan Yankee Humour (1853) 88 That woman who broomed me out of the house a spell ago.
(b)1745 D. Giddings Jrnl. 27 May in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1912) XLVIII. 299 I..continued in ye Trench a Spell.1834 S. Smith Sel. Lett. Major Jack Downing lxxi. 204 I gritted my teeth a spell.1858 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. (rev. ed.) in Poet. Wks. II. 105 He stood a spell on one foot fust, Then stood a spell on tother.1884 Harper's Mag. Feb. 410/2 He tried doctorin' a spell.(c)1862 A. Trollope N. Amer. I. 186 I wish those masons..could be driven to the labour market of Western America for a spell.1890 Argus (Melbourne) 7 June 4/1 I..was told by an honest and sensible doctor to..get out in the bush and work for a spell.
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