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单词 soon-descending
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soon-descending
With participial adjectives (and participles), as soon-arriving, soon-believing, soon-coming, soon-descending, soon-drying, etc.; soon-choked, soon-clad, soon-come, soon-contented, soon-dropped, soon-finished, soon-forgotten, etc. With infinitive, as soon-to-be.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. D4 The soone repenting pride in Agamemnon.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 101 His soone beleeuing aduersaries. View more context for this quotation
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. i. 60 A dram of poyson, such soone speeding geare. View more context for this quotation
1616 W. Drummond Poems (rev. ed.) sig. Q1v Soone-fading Beautie, which of Hues doth rise.
a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 192 These shallow and soone-drying streames of outward ioy.
1730 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons 194 The sun.., soon-descending, to the long dark night..the prostrate world resigns.
1886 E. G. White Hist. Sketches Seventh-Day Adventists 164/2 The end so near, the warning of a soon-coming Judgment yet to be given to all nations, tongues, and peoples.
1930 W. H. Auden Poems 17 Hear something of that soon-arriving day.
b.1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Coupe-queuë Two short, and soone-done-words.1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Coupe-queuë Messe de chasseur, a short, or soone-said Masse.?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads ii. 590 These soon-monied wares We drave into Neleius' town.1727 J. Thomson Summer 13 Rous'd by the Cock, the soon-clad Shepherd leaves His mossy Cottage.a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 271 That unaspiring humility, that soon contented moderation.1852 M. Arnold Absence 10 Each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill.1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life xvi. 257 Soon-sated curiosity slides willingly away.1901 G. B. Shaw Three Plays for Puritans p. xviii An hour's soon-forgotten fuss.1902 W. B. Yeats Where there is Nothing (1903) ii. 44 Not the fighting of men in red coats, that formal, soon finished fighting, but the endless battle, the endless battle.1925 E. Blunden Eng. Poems 18 And hyacinth-eyes beneath soon-dropt lids.1925 E. Blunden Eng. Poems 36 That now, this soon-come spring, goes slow and sere.c.1961 Daily Tel. 30 Aug. 10/2 He wants to appear in Belgrade at the neutralists' conference as the leader at least of a soon-to-be apparently united country.1975 Publishers Weekly 10 Nov. 51/3 Often the dying are ‘released’ by the knowledge of their soon-to-be end.
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