单词 | sky bred |
释义 | > as lemmassky bred a. With past participles, as sky born, sky bred, sky capped, etc. ΚΠ 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. Fv A Skie borne forme. 1595 E. Spenser Elegie in Phœnix Nest 2 The skie bred Egle roiall bird. 1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades iii. 57 He held his scepter up, to all the skie thronde powers. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. v. 190 The Thunderer, whose Bolt..Sky-planted, batters all rebelling Coasts. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 285 The third his feet Shaddowd from either heele with featherd maile Skie-tinctur'd grain. View more context for this quotation 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey III. xi. 727 There figs sky-dy'd, a purple hue disclose. 1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Sixth 22 Sky-born, sky-guided, sky-returning Race! 1748 L. Pilkington Mem. I. 91 Behold from Raphael's sky-dipt Pencils rise, Such heav'nly Scenes as charm the Gazers Eyes. 1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 162 Earth-born And sky-engendered, Son of Mysteries. 1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion iii. ii. 108 The sky-cast shadow of a Hebrew chief. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid iii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 162 Soon thy sky-capped towers, Phæacia, vanish from view. 1934 L. B. Lyon White Hare 14 Wind-scoured and sky-burned The fell was. 1946 D. Thomas Deaths & Entrances 27 May his hunger go howling on bare white bones Past the statues of the stables and the sky roofed sties. 2003 Pop. Mech. July 116/2 The TriField Natural EM Meter detects and measures moving skyborne magnetic sources, such as UFOs. < as lemmas |
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