Meaning of smoke around | Babel Free

Definitions

To give off smoke or steam; to be smoking.

intransitive, obsolete

Examples

“He broke his arrows, stampt the ground, To view his cities smoaking round.”

“Chief mixed his strokes with chief, and man with man; steel, clanging, sounded on steel, helmets are cleft on high. Blood bursts and smoaks around.”

“1801, Joseph Charles Mellish (translator), Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller, London: Cotta, Tubingen, Act 5, p. 199, The altar is adorn’d, the tapers blaze, The bell invites, the incense smokes around,”

“At that time, nothing was heard of but sinister events, and a country smoking around:”

“1821, Samuel Woodworth, poem written for the reopening of the Park Theater in New York, in Laurence Hutton (ed.), Opening Addresses, New York: Burt Franklin, 1970, p. 39, […] shapeless heaps of ruins smoked around, And desolation marked the blackened ground,”

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