单词 | romance-like |
释义 | > as lemmasroˈmance-like roˈmance-like adv. and adj. ΚΠ a1652 I. Jones Most Notable Antiq. called Stone-Heng (1655) 108 Romance-like hatched out of their own brains. 1684 G. Sandys Anglorum Speculum 909 As for his raising of the Siege of Pomfraict,..it will appear Romance-like to Posterity. 1722 tr. Ethelinda in Select Coll. Novels V. 109 It appear'd such a Romance-like Accident. 1847 J. Grant Romance of War IV. 347 Despite the romance-like appearance the procedure will bestow upon the story, we may not bid adieu to the hero in the midst of his grief. 1909 H. S. Canby Short Story in Eng. 5 As with certain romance-like legends of the saints.., its stories have the unmistakable atmosphere of fiction. 2000 D. Looser Brit. Women Writers & writing Hist. 44 God, not man, instigates romance-like heroism. < as lemmas |
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