| 单词 | by land and sea |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby land and sea b. Often coupled with land, to express the idea of the whole surface of the earth; similarly †sea and earth, sea and sand. Also with prepositions, as by land and sea, on sea or land, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > surface of the earth > [noun] sea and earthc1000 sea and sanda1352 c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxiii. 15 Ge befarað sæ & eorþan þæt ge don anne elþeodine. 1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 281 At his wille to be, bi se & bi land. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 37 Of zuichen þer byeþ uele maneres ine londe and ine ze. a1352 L. Minot Poems (1914) iii. 1 God þat schope both se and sand. c1366 G. Chaucer A.B.C. 50 Neither in erthe nor in see. c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Prol. 127 Ye seken lond and see for yowre wynnynges. a1400 Pistill of Susan 254 Was neuer more sorweful segge bi see nor bi sand. 1475 Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.) 8 Batailes bothe by lond and see. 1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 756 in Wks. (1931) I Quhat thow hes hard, be landis, or be seis, Off ws Kirkmen. 1807 W. Wordsworth Poems II. 142 The light that never was, on sea or land. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 300 Cimon and Lysander, Pompey and Agrippa, had fought battles by sea as well as by land. < as lemmas |
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