| 单词 | roof-fast |
| 释义 | > as lemmasroof-fast c. Locative, instrumental, etc., as roof-clustered, roof-fast, roof-mired, roof-rent, roof-wrecked adjs. ΚΠ eOE Metres of Boethius (partly from transcript of damaged MS) (2009) vii. 6 He ne herde þæt on heane munt monna ænig meahte asettan healle hroffæste. 1835 S. Fox King Alfred's Boethius 24 He said he never heard, That on a high mountain, Any one of men Could place A roof-fast hall. 1880 ‘M. Twain’ Tramp Abroad xix. 171 A hill..with..its..roof-clustered cap of architecture. 1922 T. Hardy Late Lyrics & Earlier 283 The bower we shrined to Tennyson, Gentlemen, Is roof-wrecked. 1933 C. Day Lewis Magnetic Mountain 50 Yet passing derelict mills and barns roof-rent. 1955 A. Clarke Anc. Lights 14 A cage-bird came among sparrows..Plucked, roof-mired, all in mad bits. 1984 T. C. Boyle Budding Prospects (1985) iv. 299 The whole run-down, gutted, roof-rent slum was nothing more than an oversized refuse bin, was the essence of trash itself. 2006 B. Hardy in T. Hardy Reappraised iv. 65 Rusty nails off creepers not pears, weedy roof-wrecked, blue fly on the pane replaced by a spider. < as lemmas |
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