| 单词 | vulture-torn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasvulture-torn d. In instrumental and similative combinations, as vulture-gnawn, vulture-hocked (see Compounds 2a), vulture-like, vulture-rent, vulture-torn, vulture-tortured adjs.; vulture-wise adv. ΚΠ 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 447 The Vulture-rented Promætheus, 'mong the Greekes had fire inuented. 1623 S. Daniel Sonn. xv To her that..laies to view My Vultur-gnawne hart open. 1644 K. Digby Two Treat. ii. Concl. 456 The rauenous inclemency, and vulturelike cruelty. 1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes (new ed.) I. ii. xiv. 10 Where vulture-tortured Tityus lies. 1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 21 These rush upon thee; Thy Vitals seize, and Vultur-like, devour. 1826 Blackwood's Mag. 19 589 To be like poor Prometheus, vulture-torn. 1854 Poultry Chron. 2 84/1 They are well booted, or as the Shanghae fanciers style it, ‘Vulture-hocked’. 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker xiii. 206 Towards her, the taut Norah Creina, vulture-wise, wriggled to windward: come from so far to pick her bones. 1906 W. de la Mare Poems 82 This beast in one flat hand clasped vulture-wise A glitt'ring image. < as lemmas |
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