| 单词 | without murmur |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswithout (a) murmur c. without (a) murmur: without grumbling or dissent, uncomplainingly. ΚΠ 1553 Prymmer or Bk. Priuate Prayer sig. U.iiv That I maye without murmur or grutch paciently beare this thy fatherly chastisement. 1629 F. Hubert Hist. Edward II 42 To make new Creatures, Is the Princes due, And without murmur let him haue his owne. a1687 C. Cotton Poems (1689) 543 Thy soft slumber'd-charmed, Spirits lye Dumb, without murmur at his Tyranny. c1779 R. Cumberland in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 410 I take events as they fall without murmur or complaint. 1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer xii. 283 Shall those few survivors..wait for death at the foot of some tree, without a murmur..for the good of the cause? 1838 J. L. Stephens Incidents Trav. Greece, Turkey, Russia 24/1 I should have..given up the remnant of my stock of borrowed money without a murmur. 1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel xvi. 156 That I should accept without murmur or question..every action of my mistress. 1992 M. Clynes White Rose Murder (BNC) 141 Padding silently behind our horses without murmur or protest. < as lemmas |
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