单词 | rook-haunted |
释义 | > as lemmasrook-haunted rook-haunted adj. ΚΠ 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. i. 6 I was once at a hunting dinner given by a worthy fox-hunting old Baronet, who kept bachelor's hall in jovial style, in an ancient rook-haunted family mansion. 1872 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) I. 280 I am writing among the grey gables and rook-haunted trees. 1903 ‘A. Clare’ Tideway iv. 33 Claude Meredith's eyes roved about with no lack of interest, as he went up the drive between the double rows of tall, rook-haunted elms. 2002 Amer. Poetry Rev. (Nexis) Jan. 27 The old Balkerne Gate stood just up the street from his first English home, a Tudor-style cottage next to a rook-haunted churchyard on Lexden Road. < as lemmas |
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