单词 | what marvel |
释义 | > as lemmaswhat marvel P2. no marvel: no wonder (very frequently in 16th and early 17th centuries). what marvel: what wonder. Now archaic. ΚΠ c1460 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Laud) 17406 No marvayle though ye vs not trow. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Aiiii And no meruell: For in the syght of the deite resteth all. 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. sig. ⁋4 And what maruaile? 1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 31 No maruell then, if Trees make their shoots, and put their spraies disorderly. a1674 Earl of Clarendon Hist. Rebellion (1702) I. i. 7 I say, it is no Marvail..that he could think of no better way [etc.]. 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 171 No marvel, if where the flesh only bears sway (as it will in that Man where no faith is to resist) if he sells his Birth-right..to the Devil of Hell. View more context for this quotation 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iii. xxvii. 115 No marvel, 'mid such musings high, Sleep shunn'd the monarch's thoughtful eye. 1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. x. 609 What marvel if..the most insignificant trifles should swell into matters of the highest importance? 1884 R. D. Blackmore Hist. Sir T. Upmore II. ii. 17 What marvel, that we have sold our birth-right to an acephalous mollusk, when the simple use of the tongue has passed into such headless mongreldom? < as lemmas |
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