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单词 rainbow promise
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rainbow promise
b. In extended and figurative senses, as rainbow-hint, rainbow-presence, rainbow promise, etc.
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1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iii. iv. sig. F2 So painted, pyed, and full of Raine-bow straines. View more context for this quotation
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 334 [The Jesuits'] religious pietie in shew, is but a rainebow cloude, of atheall policie in action, drawne vp in vaporous dewes of cold congealed deuotions.
a1806 H. K. White Remains (1807) II. 151 There's not a wind that blows but bears with it Some rainbow promise.
a1835 F. D. Hemans To New-born in Wks. (1839) VI. 195 A rainbow-welcome thine hath been, of mingled smiles and tears.
a1835 F. D. Hemans Genius Singing to Love in Poet. Wks. (1836) 214/1 The light thy rainbow-presence throws Over the poet's dream.
1841 R. W. Emerson Ess. 1st Ser. (Boston ed.) v. 148 Beauty..resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use.
1861 C. Dickens Let. 17 Nov. (1997) IX. 508 Precious to me as a rainbow-hint of your friendship.
1909 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xxvi. 304 She had come at last..to the bend in the road; and college was around it, with a hundred rainbow hopes and visions.
a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 17 Venus..is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males And dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.
1953 L. P. Hartley Go-between (1958) vii. 77 I was crossing the rainbow bridge from reality to dream.
1974 D. Niatum Ascending Red Cedar Moon 5 Time formed itself from rimes of the Elwah, Rainbow river of my ancestors.
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