| 单词 | sparrow-fall |
| 释义 | > as lemmassparrow-fall sparrow-fall n. poetic (cf. Shakespeare Hamlet v. ii. 166) a sparrow's death; hence gen. mortality; also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > liability to ashc950 deathlinessOE deadliness?c1225 mortalityc1400 mortalness1530 dyingness1700 sparrow-fall1946 1946 D. Thomas Deaths & Entrances 40 Mammoth and sparrowfall Everybody's earth. 1970 T. Hughes Crow 32 An old man..Gazed towards the nearby polished shoes And slowly forgot the deaths in Homer The sparrowfall natural economy Of the dark simple curtain. < as lemmas |
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