单词 | by the surer side |
释义 | > as lemmasby (also on) the surer side ΚΠ 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lxxiiiv The old & trite prouerbe be true that the womans side is the surer side and that the childe foloweth the wombe.] 1589 ‘Marphoreus’ Martins Months Minde To Rdr. sig. Cv Their Father, or great Grandfather, or any of that leud linage before them, and these mens Cater Cosins, on the surer side. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. ii. 125 Hee is your brother by the surer side . View more context for this quotation 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. ii. 416/2 Hee [sc. William the Conqueror] ordained his halfe brother by the surer side, Odo Bishop of Bayeux. 1678 T. Jones Of Heart & Soveraign 314 The first Gentile Bishop they had at Rome, and upon good desert, Linus by name, was of Brittish extraction by the surer side, the Son of Claudia Ruffina. 1719 T. Harris Fox, a Fryar 17 To Matchiavel, and Him, I am ally'd, Both my Great Uncles, by the surer side. 1737 S. Berington Mem. G. di Lucca 150 This Great Heroe..from whose Loins you your self sprung by the surer Side. 1893 Glasgow Herald 25 Jan. I am clanless, because, although I am one by the surer side, the name I bear is different. < as lemmas |
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