单词 | to alight on the lure |
释义 | > as lemmasto alight on the lure c. Phrases. to alight on the lure, to bring, call, come, stoop to (the or one's) lure, etc. Often figurative †Also at one's lure (figurative): at one's command, under one's control; so †to gain to one's lure. ΚΠ c1386 G. Chaucer Friar's Tale 42 This false theef,..Hadde alway bawdes redy to his hond, As any hauk to lure in Engelond. c1386 G. Chaucer Manciple's Prol. 72 Another day he wole perauenture Reclayme thee, and brynge thee to lure. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 11 Bot yit hire liketh noght alyhte Upon no lure which I caste. 1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1554) v. xxxiv. 141 b After this.. Came Jugurtha yt manly man to lure. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxxiv. 171 She promised..To love you best..Though that Disdayne brought her to her lure. 1582 T. Watson Ἑκατομπαθία: Passionate Cent. Loue xlvii In time the Bull is brought to weare the yoake, In time all haggred Haukes will stoope the Lures. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xi. 173 As much as thou canst, thou makest all things stoope to thy lure. 1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 52 I leaue to tell how she doth poison cure,..What canckars hard and wolfes be at her lure. 1611 G. Markham Countrey Contentm. (1668) i. v. 30 After your Hawks are manned, you shall bring them to the Lure by easie degrees. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) i. §10 I teach my haggard and unreclaimed Reason to stoope unto the lure of Faith. View more context for this quotation 1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Persian Wars i. 30 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian This mayd, Antonina, by much soothing..at last gained to her lure. 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 175 The Rosy-crucian way's more sure, To bring the Devil to the Lure. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. iii. 186 He brought the Venetian to his Luer. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 239/2 Lure, or Lewer, or Lewre, is to call the Hawk to Lure. 1742 W. Somerville Field Sports 14 A docile Slave, Tam'd to the Lure, and careful to attend Her Master's Voice. a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III vii, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 245/1 A friend of ours—a poet—fewer Have fluttered tamer to the lure Than he. 1865 A. C. Swinburne Garden of Proserpine in Poems & Ballads 76 Time stoops to no man's lure. < as lemmas |
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