| 单词 | rule-and-line |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrule-and-line ΚΠ 1843 G. L. Craik & C. Macfarlane Pict. Hist. Eng. III. ii. i. 28/1 Abbé Sièyes himself was not a greater formalist, or more given to rule and line work. 1859 Gentleman's Mag. June 649/1 Professor of Drawing to the Military Academy at West Point, a post which required not genius, but mere rule and line exactitude. 1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. xi. 409 He showed..a tendency towards a severe rule-and-line form both of tragic scheme and of tragic versification. 1908 A. Ruhl Other Americans xi. 192 Whatever answered to him for the rule-and-line man's work or profession seemed something wholly casual. < as lemmas |
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