| 单词 | by myriads |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby myriads c. by myriads: in uncountably large numbers. ΚΠ ?a1659 T. Pestell Poems (1940) 71 And 't were a blest fate, if such things as I, To make thee live, might but by myriades die. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 81 The North by myriads pours her mighty sons. 1799 R. Southey in Morning Post 27 Nov. The Cat..sat screaming, mad with fear At the Army of Rats that were drawing near... They are not to be told by the dozen or score, By thousands they come, and by myriads and more. 1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 461/2 Scampering away from us in every direction.., by thousands—nay, by myriads. 1887 Overland Monthly Dec. 618/1 Here are the gauze-like sails of innumerable little ‘Portuguese Men of War’... Were they flung here by some wild storm to perish by myriads? a1918 W. Owen From My Diary in Poems (1931) 45 Leaves Murmuring by myriads in the shimmering trees. < as lemmas |
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