| 单词 | the bottles of heaven |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe bottles of heaven (also †rain, †the clouds) P1. the bottles of heaven (also †rain, †the clouds) [after Hebrew niḇlē šāmayīm, plural noun (Job 38:37)] : rain clouds.With reference to Job 38:37 (see quot. 1560). ΚΠ 1560 Bible (Geneva) Job xxxviii. 37 Who can cause to cease the bottels of heauen? 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered iii. 13 The bottles of the clowdes, as Iob calleth them. 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi iv. §2. 64 The aire is often cleare, and those bottles of rain are not alwayes there. a1677 I. Barrow Brief Expos. Creed (1697) 23 The wide Seas..supply the bottles of heaven with water. 1746 J. Hervey Medit. among Tombs 91 If God ‘seal up the Bottles of Heaven’..the best manured Plot becomes a barren Desart. 1799 W. Huntington Corr. Noctua Aurita & Philomela xxviii. 136 It hath stopped the bottles of heaven for three years and six months. 1826 Maryland Gaz. & State Reg. 18 May 2/1 Our showers fall in such torrents, that one would think the bottles of heaven were broken, not unstopped. 1860 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 24 Dec. At 11 o'clock, the heavenly bottles being corked up for awhile..the crowd dispersed. 1883 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 24 Feb. 1/1 He is a rare hand at pulling down, disestablishing, and disendowing, but he has no power over the bottles of Heaven. 1954 Sunday Tribune (Albert Lea, Minn.) 5 Sept. 4/2 Lately in this garden spot of the earth we haven't had much worry about staying the bottles of heaven. < as lemmas |
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