单词 | soft-circling |
释义 | > as lemmassoft-circling a. With present participles, as soft-brushing, soft-circling, soft-ebbing, etc. Frequent in 18th-century poetry. extracted from softadv. (a) In predicative use. Formerly also with adverbs formed from present participles. Now rare (chiefly poetic). ΚΠ a1500 (?a1400) Firumbras (1935) l. 1658 Duk terry..kest hym on a mule ful softe beryng. 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 60 One, in the fresh shade of an Apple-Tree Lets hang its Quiuer, while soft-pantingly 'T exhales hot Vapour. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 300 Wave rowling after Wave,..If steep, with torrent rapture, if through Plaine, Soft-ebbing . View more context for this quotation 1710 A. Philips Pastorals ii. 6 Their Notes soft-warb'ling to the gladsome Spring. 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xvii. 310 They heard, soft-circling in the sky, Sweet Airs ascend. 1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes II. iii. xi. 18 The Dog of Hell, Immense of Bulk, to Thee soft-soothing fell. 1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 5 The God..soft-brushing, in his speed, The taller grasses. 1845 F. W. Faber Let. 29 Jan. in R. Chapman Father Faber (1961) vi. 103 When I know how miserably sinful and soft-living I have been, I ought never to have stepped out in the way that I have done. 1875 H. W. Longfellow Hanging of Crane iv. 22 Limpid as planets..Soft-shining through the summer night. a1918 W. Owen Coll. Poems (1963) 103 And through those snows my looks shall be soft-going. 1925 E. Sitwell Troy Park 45 Like curd soft-falling. 1944 E. Blunden Shells by Stream 49 The cloud soft-flaming past the mountain wall. 1957 L. Grenelle No Light Evaded 78 Stern, soft-stepping, tall-standing, he never complained about anything. (b) In attributive use. ΚΠ 1553 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Eneados iii. f. liiv The soft [L. lenis] piping wynd, calling to se. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion iii. 48 As some soft-sliding Rill..Extends it selfe at length vnto a goodly streame. 1648 J. Beaumont Psyche iv. ccxiii. 56 By the side Of some soft-murmuring Current. 1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes II. iii. xix. 20 The soft-swelling Pipe, and the Hautboy sonorous. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 302 Benign, soft-shining goddess [sc. Hope]. 1791 S. T. Coleridge Math. Probl. iii The soft-flowing daughter of fright. 1816 J. Wilson City of Plague in Poems (1825) I. 299 Sinking down As through soft-yielding waters murmuring round me. 1827 J. Keble Christian Year II. c. 191 The light from those soft-smiling eyes. 1829 D. Jerrold Black-ey'd Susan i. i. 13 That pretty piece of soft-speaking womanhood. 1836 E. B. Browning Poet's Vow ii. xiii The silence left By that soft-throbbing speech. 1888 W. Whitman November Boughs 33 And who art thou? said I to the soft-falling shower... I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain. 1892 A. C. Gunter Miss Dividends (1893) 13 Here a soft-treading waiter knocks upon the door. 1916 D. H. Lawrence Amores 24 Soft-sailing waters where fears No longer shake. 1965 F. Sargeson Mem. Peon iv. 73 The shapely soft-speaking Maori girl..brought me a plate of sandwiches. 1975 New Yorker 5 May 109/1 He hit a great, soft-falling shot seven feet beyond the flag. 1977 Times 17 Mar. 18/6 A soft-living Mayfair clientele. 2006 Wall St. Jrnl. 17 Mar. (Central ed.) w4/5 Jason Reitman..wrote this soft-hitting adaptation from Christopher Buckley's comic novel. < as lemmas |
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