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单词 soft-circling
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soft-circling
a. With present participles, as soft-brushing, soft-circling, soft-ebbing, etc. Frequent in 18th-century poetry.
(a) In predicative use. Formerly also with adverbs formed from present participles. Now rare (chiefly poetic).
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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.
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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.
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