China has resumed ore procurement from Myanmar, easing fears of tighter supply.
"Death has soon ended what must have been a life of wretchedness and unavailing regret".
The Times obituary reports on the last days of #OscarWilde who died in exile in Paris #onthisday 1900, three years after his release from Reading Gaol.
"Death has soon ended what must have been a life of wretchedness and unavailing regret".
The Times obituary reports on the last days of #OscarWilde who died in exile in Paris #onthisday 1900, three years after his release from Reading Gaol.
Only 3% of Britons speak ‘the Queen’s English’ but recruiters favour them still. Are we wasting talent based on accent?
View of the Earth from the Moon, Scientific American, November 23rd 1877, illustrator unknown.
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plummy
adjective
部分
earth, n.1
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian irthe , erthe , ērde , Old Dutch ertha (Middle Dutch aerde... (Show More)
I. Senses relating to the ground.
1. The ground considered simply as a surface on which human beings, animals, and things associated with them rest or move.
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) iv. 211 Iohannes..astrehte his lichoman to eorðan on langsumum gebede.
OE Beowulf (2008) 1532 Wearp ða wundelmæl [read wundenmæl]..þæt hit on eorðan læg, stið ond stylecg.
?c1200 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8074 Forr he [sc. Herod] warrþ seoc. & he bigann To rotenn bufenn eorþe.
c1300 Evangelie (Dulwich Coll.) 106 in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. (1915) 30 551 (MED) [Þ]e neddre..ne may on herþe glide.
1487 (▸a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 284 The Kyng..Wes laid at Erd.
a1500 (▸c1400) Emaré (1908) l. 285 (MED) He felle down in sowenynge, To þe yrþe was he dyght.
c1540 (▸?a1400) Destr. Troy 6817 Sum [he] hurlit to þe hard yerth.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 75 So typtoe-nyce in treading on the earth, as though they walkt vpon Snakes.
1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 23 Let your Gard'ner endeavour to apply the Collateral Branches of his Wall Fruits..to the Earth or Borders.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Reptile is likewise used, abusively, for Plants and Fruits which creep on the Earth, or on other Plants.
1764 J. Boswell Grand Tour 1 Oct. (1953) 117 While I drove by in my coach, the people bowed to the earth.
1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess v. 118 Part roll'd on the earth and rose again.
1886 R. L. Stevenson Strange Case Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde iv. 37 Mr. Hyde broke out of all bounds and clubbed him to the earth.
1928 D. H. Lawrence Woman who rode Away & Other Stories 51 He looked a long time down at the earth, then glanced up at her with a touch of supplication in his uneasy eyes.
1995 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 20 Feb. 7 I worship the very earth that this team walks on.
2. The ground considered as a solid stratum.
OE Judgement Day II 99 Eall eorðe bifað, eac swa þa duna dreosað and hreosað.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1100 To þam Pentecosten wæs gesewen..æt anan tune blod weallan of eorþan.
c1275 (▸?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13884 Þa eorðe [c1300 Otho earþe] gon beouien.
c1300 St. Mary of Egypt (Laud) 316 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 270 (MED) Þe eorþe was hard, and he was old, and none spade he nadde.
a1400 (▸a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 16784 Þe day wex derker þen þe nyȝt: þe erþe quook wiþ alle.
a1400 (▸a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 4699 Þe erth it clang, for drught and hete.
1562 W. Bullein Bk. Simples f. 57, in Bulwarke of Defence The people..are constrained to inhabite in Caves, under the yearth.
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 8v Of Gemmes, some are found in the earthes vaines, & are digged vp with Metalles.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1190 The casting up aloft into the aire of stones & cinders by subterranean windes under the earth.
1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 46 They lie in Veins in the Earth, and in the firm Rocks.
1701 tr. N. Andry Acct. Breeding Worms in Human Bodies iii. 32 They..were seized with an Epidemical Distemper, inspiring them with such fury, that they fell a digging the Earth.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. iii. 339 Who under earth on human kind avenge Severe, the guilt of violated oaths.
1839 Z. Leonard Narr. Adventures 73/2 An oil spring, rising out of the earth.
1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. viii. 185 ‘The well’, the deep cavity sunk in the earth by the art of man.
1865 Frost & Fire II. 182 Them is what we call marble stones; they grow in the yearth.
1938 R. Hum Chem. for Engin. Students xxvi. 711 Asphalt, or mineral pitch, is considered to be the residue from the natural evaporation of petroleum, which has escaped from the earth.
1974 L. Murray Coll. Poems (1991) 110 Out here, the trees Grow coolly under the earth.
1991 Which? Apr. 188/2 Groundwater is produced by rainwater percolating down through the earth.
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