单词 | without rest |
释义 | > as lemmaswithout rest P3. without rest: †(a) without delay, immediately (obsolete); (b) without a break, with no relief or intermission. Cf. rest n.2 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > immediacy > immediately [phrase] without restc1225 but bodea1300 without residence1488 before you know where you are1803 in a heartbeat1860 before (one) can say knife1874 c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 22 (MED) Þe sunne reccheð hire rune wið-uten euch reste. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 4774 (MED) So jangle thei withoute reste. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. iv. sig. Ee8 So forth she rode without repose or rest, Searching all lands and each remotest part. 1651 E. Sherburne Poems & Transl. 167 The voice of God in Man! which, without rest Doth softly cry within a troubled Breast. 1712 R. Blackmore Creation ii. 67 The bright Glutton revels without rest On his Cool Banquet, and Aerial Feast. 1761 J. Burgh Art of Speaking 38 The soul of Ixion was tied upon a wheel, and whirled about without rest. 1872 H. Parr Echoes of Famous Year xxxii. 134 The swift reel of events runs on without rest or pause. 1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona v. 51 His eyes speeding here and there without rest. 1916 F.J. Reynolds et al. Story of Great War viii. lvi. 326 It was determined that the Senate, on reassembling, should sit without rest, recess or intermission. 1961 S. Woolf tr. P. Levi Survival in Auschwitz ii. iv. 56 It fabricates phantasms and terrible symbols, and without rest projects and shapes their images. 2001 R. F. Murphy Body Silent 102 This leaves one adrift in a lonely monologue, an inner soliloquy without rest or surcease. < as lemmas |
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