| 单词 | roc |
| 例句 | He too\\ the mountain roc\\ to carve into inking stones. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z I opened it and, in careful printing was written “You roc.” Kids, you’re the ones who ‘roc’ 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Further, if Signor Bianconi's assumption hold good, then may we not have done amiss in banishing the "roc" to the realms of fiction? The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The egg itself, with its shell of white, was geometrically perfect, and brought to mind the famous tale of Sindbad and the gigantic roc. The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z It was of a giant bird, like the roc of the Arabian Nights. The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines 2011-10-22T02:00:26.240Z Times like these, a lump like a roc’s egg would rise in the boy’s throat. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z “I thought it was the roc,” said Mark, sitting down again. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Old Marco Polo, writing in the thirteenth century, described the roc circumstantially, and the account has been long considered as either a fiction or a mistake. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z He may have, and a stocking full of gold, and the roc's egg, or anything else, for aught I know. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z "And the egg was as big as a roc's egg," went on Buff. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z They were gigantic wings, too, much longer than those of roc; and whenever Behoric needed a pen he would pluck from them the quill which best suited the document he wanted to sign. Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale 2010-12-30T03:00:21.423Z Aepyornis maximus, which laid enormous eggs, and not unnaturally recalls the mythical “roc” that figures so largely in Arabian tales. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z “To find the valley of diamonds, and throw down lumps of meat for the rocs to fetch out.” Real Gold A Story of Adventure "The roc, great, fabled bird, flying through the air with those old Arabs perched on its back." The Guns of Europe "You never saw a roc's egg," Thomas reminded him, "so how can you know how big they are?" The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z It's like Sinbad's roc in the fairy tale. Shadows of Flames A Novel Over all, hung his own self as the wings of a roc darkening the countryside. A Novelist on Novels It was a roc, one o’ them birds as carried Sindbad out o’ the valley. Real Gold A Story of Adventure Their motors were still throbbing, and in the dimness they looked like the rocs of Arabian mythology, resting after a gigantic flight. The Guns of Europe But when I found myself on the ground I speedily untied the knot, and had scarcely done so when the roc, having taken up a serpent of a monstrous length in her bill, flew away. Favorite Fairy Tales The Childhood Choice of Representative Men and Women Considered in a matter-of-fact way, and in the cold and unflattering light of natural history, our national emblem is no more a truth than the Phœnix is, and is almost as preposterous as the roc. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 Now that story about the roc's egg grows upon me; indeed it does! Miss Muffet's Christmas Party This was only a chicken, I should say; but it was a roc, all the same.” Real Gold A Story of Adventure It was enough to make one remember the roc that Sindbad saw and get under cover. Old Plymouth Trails “If only a roc’s egg,” replied he, “were hung up from the middle of this dome, it would be the wonder of the world.” Favorite Fairy Tales The Childhood Choice of Representative Men and Women "What did you think it was, young fellow, an old-time roc come back to life?" he called out; waving a hand at them cheerfully. Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast or Through Storm and Stress to Florida All that misses is a roc's egg, hanging up in the great hall, unless it is there, disguised in a chandelier from Venice. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America It would be something to rank with the great men who had devoted their lives to the pursuit of the dodo and the roc. The Land of Thor But the imam exclaimed that he was tired of tales of genii and magicians, of enchantments and spells, devils, dragons, and rocs. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton He begged to know what was amiss, and she told him that all her pleasure in the hall was spoiled for the want of a roc’s egg hanging from the dome. Favorite Fairy Tales The Childhood Choice of Representative Men and Women “Like the huge Ruck from Gillingham that flewe.”—It seems remarkable to meet with the roc of the “Arabian Nights” in English so long before the existence of any translation. The Battaile of Agincourt The upper and lower traps of the air chamber were opened, and Silver Cloud settled like a great roc toward the toiling little ship. Doctor Jones' Picnic "Did you expect it to be as big as the roc's egg in 'Sinbad the Sailor'?" Stories of Many Lands James heard him with envy, doubtful of the land "where rocs flew away with elephants." True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin He left her and rubbed the lamp, and when the genie appeared commanded him to bring a roc’s egg. Favorite Fairy Tales The Childhood Choice of Representative Men and Women This legend has been current ever since the ninth century, among the Persians and Arabs, and this bird plays a wonderful part in Arabian tales under the name of the roc. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World He was, I think, flown away with by a roc; but from what quarter of the heavens the French are to look for deliverance from these devourers, I cannot presume to guess. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) Now he is sailing on the seas beyond Ceylon, now his ship is being pursued by a giant roc whose young have been killed and eaten by Sindbad. A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole And they got to passing off almost anything for turkeys—half-grown humming-birds, and even rocs out of the Arabian Nights—the real turkeys were so scarce. Christmas Every Day and Other Stories After this the Princess could think of nothing but the roc’s egg, and when Aladdin returned from hunting he found her in a very ill humor. Favorite Fairy Tales The Childhood Choice of Representative Men and Women It was a shadowy figure yet it moved, arose, held out one hand, and a bird as large as the fabled roc alighted on the wrist of the outstretched hand. The Black Wolf Pack You wouldn’t have talked of feathered steam-engines, or of fabled rocs, or of winged elephants in the air—certainly not! The Red Eric My roc’s egg had been the “open sesame” to Mrs Clyde’s castle. She and I, Volume 1 I soon discovered by the ten benches in a circle, and the eleventh in the middle, smaller than the rest, that I was in the castle whence I had been carried by the roc. The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales Times like these, a lump like a roc's egg would rise in the boy's throat. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story The ship in which he sailed was dashed to pieces by huge stones let down from the talons of two angry rocs. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 There we found a roc's egg, equal in size to the one I had seen before. Favorite Fairy Tales I had wished for “the roc’s egg” to complete my happiness; and I had obtained it with a vengeance. She and I, Volume 1 The other roc, to our misfortune, threw his burden so exactly upon the middle of the ship, as to split it into a thousand pieces. The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales The merchants who landed with me broke the egg with hatchets, and making a hole in it, pulled out the young roc piecemeal, and roasted it. The Arabian Nights Entertainments Exceptions: talc, zinc, roc, arc, and a few very uncommon words. The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric Air travel is a perilous thing; just today, a stratosphere roc crashed head-on into a fragment of the sky and was killed with all its passengers. The Sky Is Falling The other roc, to our misfortune, threw his massy burden so exactly into the middle of the ship as to split it into a thousand pieces. The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book In the meantime, the two rocs approached with a frightful noise, which they redoubled when they saw the egg broken, and their young one gone. The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales The two rocs approached with a frightful noise, which they redoubled when they saw the egg broken, and their young one gone. The Arabian Nights Entertainments He was struck by hideous fear, as if the fearful roc were after him. Atlantis There's no surface transportation available, and all the local rocs are in use. The Sky Is Falling There was a young roc in it, just ready to be hatched, and its bill had begun to appear. The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book There was a young roc in it just ready to be hatched, and its bill had begun to appear. The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales The roc they spoke of soon arrived; he pounced upon me, took me in his talons like a sheep, and carried me up to the summit of the mountain. The Arabian Nights Entertainments And as in The Arabian Nights the roc is described as the greatest of birds, so, in the eyes of the buccaneer biographer, this Roc was the greatest of pirates. Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts The roc was beginning to drop into a long landing glide, and details below were easier to see. The Sky Is Falling In the meantime, the two rocs approached with a frightful noise, which they redoubled when they saw the egg broken and their young one gone. The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book As I perceived the roc coming, I crept close to the egg, so that I had before me one of the bird's legs, which was as big as the trunk of a tree. The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales When I found myself on the ground I cut the skin with the knife, and throwing it off, the roc at the sight of me flew away. The Arabian Nights Entertainments Even the monstrous roc of the Arabian Nights must have been a mere tom-tit compared with the bird which Rabbi bar Chama says he once saw. Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers Then a shout went up, and Hanson jerked his eyes from the gears to focus on a group of rocs that were landing at the far end of the camp. The Sky Is Falling A child no more resents this because it is strange than he objects to read in a fairytale of robbers concealed in oil-jars or of diamonds big as a roc's egg. On The Art of Reading The merchants whom I had taken on board, and who landed with me, broke the egg with hatchets, pulled out the young roc, piecemeal, and roasted it. The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales So he ordered that they should saddle and bridle his strongest steed, and up the mountain he rode for many a toilsome hour, until he came to where the roc lived among the clouds. Jewel's Story Book Which is scarcely wise of you—because it may, you know, be the roc's egg after all. The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Hanson jerked around to see a great roc making its landing run, heading straight for them. The Sky Is Falling Then it flashed into my mind that this must be the bird which I had heard sailors talk of, called a roc, and the smooth white ball must be its egg. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories This was a new perplexity: so that when I compared this place with the desert island from which the roc had brought me I found that I had gained nothing by the change. The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales As she said this, the roc slowly stretched her great wings, and the man examined them eagerly, above and below. Jewel's Story Book They retired in the day-time to their dens, where they hid themselves from the roc, their enemy, and came out only in the night. Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know The great roc's hard-drumming wings set up a constant sound of rushing air and the distance flowed behind them. The Sky Is Falling I was so small, compared to the roc, that it had never even noticed me, but darted off towards a great black object lying near, which it seized with its beak and carried off. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories "Oh, the roc's eggs, I suppose," answered the girl. The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 3, December, 1884 The roc, the oldest and wisest of all birds, lived at the top of the mountain which rose above his castle. Jewel's Story Book One day, admiring the beauty of the hall, he told her that nothing could surpass it if only a roc's egg were hung from the middle of the dome. The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites The roc squawked harshly, but it had learned and had been watching above. The Sky Is Falling "I can never be happy until I have a roc's egg hanging from the dome of the great hall," she answered. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories He remembered the roc's egg of the legend, and thought he would proceed with caution. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull In the morning they ate fruits and berries, and pursued their journey, and it was not long before another of the obstacles which the roc and the hermit had foretold threatened to end their pilgrimage. Jewel's Story Book The captain of my ship, knowing by experience what they meant, said they were the male and female parents of the roc, and urged us to reëmbark with all speed. The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites Sinbad's roc was just a legend of 'em. The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents He thought, at first, if I could bear a few roc's eggs beaten up by a mermaid on a dolphin's back, I might be benefited. Yesterdays with Authors The men seemed standing on the very pinion-feathers of some fabled roc, sweeping through space. The Flying Legion Beyond he found another puff-ball, one of the second crop, rising like a roc's egg out of the abnormally coarsened turf. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth I remembered that I had often heard mariners speak of a marvelous bird called the roc, and felt sure that the great dome by which I stood must be its egg. The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites Agib visited the ten young men, each of whom had lost the right eye, and was carried by a roc to the palace of the forty princesses, with whom he tarried a year. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook The little boy thought they looked as if they were roc's eggs, blocks of big ruby eggs. Men, Women and Ghosts These dwarfed the fast-gathering group that stood peering up at them, like pygmies under the pinions of the fabled roc in Sinbad the Sailor's story. The Flying Legion If it had been Aladdin's palace, roc's egg and all, I suppose I could not have been more charmed with the romantic idea of living in it. David Copperfield But when I found myself on the ground, I quickly untied the knot, and had scarcely done so when the roc, having taken up a serpent of monstrous length in her bill, flew away. The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites After this the Princess could think of nothing but the roc's egg, and when Aladdin returned from hunting he found her in a very ill humor. The Blue Fairy Book Nobody talked of anything but dervishes and vizirs, rocs and peris. The Arabian Nights I think it turned out that the palace itself was built within the roc's egg. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 I know not which to value most, a roc's egg as big as an ordinary hogshead, or the shell of the egg which Columbus set upon its end. A Virtuoso's Collection (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") The merchants who landed with me broke the egg with hatchets, and made a hole in it, pulled out the young roc piecemeal, and roasted it. The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites He begged to know what was amiss, and she told him that all her pleasure in the hall was spoiled for the want of a roc's egg hanging from the dome. The Blue Fairy Book A fowl of monstrous size, called a roc, will appear in the air, taking you to be a sheep. The Arabian Nights The tidy warblers threw out the emptied shells; one by one I picked them up, and have made cups and saucers, bowls and pitchers for you: a roc's egg never held anything one-half so fine. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 We touched at a desert island, where we found a roc's egg. The Elson Readers, Book 5 It seemed to me that the place was no better than the desert island from which the roc had brought me. The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites They then sewed me up in the skin and left me on the ground outside the palace; and the roc carried me off and set me down on the mountain. The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I After this the princess could think of nothing but a roc's egg, and when Aladdin returned from hunting he found her in a very ill humour. The Arabian Nights She had everything that heart could desire,—everything but a roc's egg. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 But when I found myself on the ground, I speedily untied the knot, and had scarcely done so when the roc, having taken up a serpent in its bill, flew away. The Elson Readers, Book 5 In the daytime they hid in their dens from their enemy, the roc, and came out only in the night. The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites I remembered a fowl, called roc, that I had often heard mariners speak of, and conceived that the great bowl, which I so much admired, must needs be its egg. Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights As soon as the roc sees you he will fly away from fear, but you must walk on till you come to a castle covered with plates of gold, studded with jewels. The Arabian Nights Now, do not you be like the foolish princess, and desire a roc's egg; it will prove a stone, the egg of a rock, indeed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 I tied myself strongly to it with my turban, hoping that the roc next morning would carry me out of this desert island. The Elson Readers, Book 5 A roc," he said, "is a bird of enormous size which lives at the summit of Mount Caucasus. The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites In the meantime the two rocs approached with a frightful noise, which they redoubled when they saw the egg broken, and their young one gone. Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights Patty laughed, for she well knew what happened once when a roc's egg was asked for. Patty Fairfield He had never thought about getting a roc's egg, and did not know what it was. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms I remembered that I had often heard sailors speak of a wonderful bird called the roc, and saw that the great dome which I so much admired must be its egg. The Elson Readers, Book 5 But I might wish for the roc's egg: there is no way of robbing the bird. The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family The other roc, to our misfortune, threw the stone so exactly upon the middle of the ship that it split into a thousand pieces. Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights I mean no disrespect to the ancient Koran, but one would not desire the roc to lay more eggs and give us a whole wing-flapping brood to soar and make twilight. Impressions of Theophrastus Such His palace was full of treasures, but an enemy looked on all the wealth and suggested a previously unnoticed defect by saying, 'You have not a roc's egg.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms When I compared this place with the desert island from which the roc had brought me, I found that I had gained nothing by the change. The Elson Readers, Book 5 Then did Sindbad know that the dome was an egg, and that the bird was the bird roc, which feeds its young upon elephants. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction I tied myself strongly to it with the cloth that went round my turban, in hopes that when the roc flew away next morning she would carry me with her out of this desert island. Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights After this the princess could think of nothing but a roc's egg, and when Aladdin returned from hunting he found her in a very ill humor. Oriental Literature The Literature of Arabia If Egypt gave birth to Greece, with her beautiful arts, then truly this immense, clumsy roc's egg hatched a miraculous nest of loves and graces. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 Pronounce: Caliph; Harun-al-Rashid; savory; repast; becalmed; Maharaja; rarities; aloes; sequin; roc; desert; Arabic; sovereign; tradition. The Elson Readers, Book 5 "Others, observing how rapidly it came, in movement like a bird sailing on outspread motionless wings, said: "'A roc! The Prince of India — Volume 01 This was a new perplexity, so that when I compared this place with the desert island from which the roc brought me, I found that I had gained nothing by the change. Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights "My good mother," said the princess, "what bird is a roc, and where may one get an egg?" Types of Children's Literature But when I found myself on the ground, I speedily untied the knot, and had scarcely done so, when the roc, having taken up a serpent of monstrous length in her bill, flew away. The Junior Classics — Volume 5 The merchants who were with me broke the shell with hatchets and killed the young roc. The Elson Readers, Book 5 "Genie," said Aladdin, "I command that in the name of this lamp you bring me a roc's egg to be hung up in the middle of the dome of the hall of the palace." Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 I soon discovered by the ten sofas in a circle, and the eleventh in the middle, lower than the rest, that I was in the castle whence I had been carried by the roc. The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Complete "Genie," said Aladdin, "there wants a roc's egg to be hung up in the midst of the dome; I command thee, in the name of this lamp, to repair the deficiency." Types of Children's Literature The merchants who landed with me broke the egg with hatchets, and made a hole in it, pulled out the young roc, piecemeal, and roasted it. The Junior Classics — Volume 5 I soon discoved by the ten sofas in a circle, and the eleventh in the middle, lower than the rest, that I was in the castle whence I had been carried by the roc. The Arabian Nights Entertainments — Volume 01 Then, strange to relate, the roc comes and carries them both away in her claws, for food for her young ones. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 I remembered a fowl called *roc, that I had often heard mariners speak of, and conceived that the great bowl, which I so much admired, must needs be its egg. The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 Sindbad's great bird, the roc, was considered a flight of the Oriental fancy, until science revealed the bones of the dinornis. Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel "Genie," said Aladdin, "I command thee in the name of this lamp, bring a roc's egg to be hung up in the middle of the dome of the hall of the palace." The Junior Classics — Volume 5 In all the tales of his boyhood, of large and beautiful rocs and other birds, he had come across nothing like this. The Blind Spot They retired in the day time to their dens, where they hid themselves from the roc, their enemy, and came out only in the night. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 This was a new perplexity upon me; so that, when I compared this place with the desert island the roc brought me from, I found that I had gained nothing by the change. The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 "Eagles—buzzards—vultures—condors—rocs—phoenixes," Pete Murphy recited his list in an or of imaginative conjecture. Angel Island The two rocs approached with a frightful noise, which they redoubled when they saw the egg broken and their young one gone. The Junior Classics — Volume 5 Going to dark bed there was a square round Sinbad the Sailor roc's auk's egg in the night of the bed of all the auks of the rocs of Darkinbad the Brightdayler. Ulysses If I were a bit bigger, say the size of the roc of the Arabian Nights, what a dainty morsel you would make! The Red Planet The roc they had spoken of was not long a-coming; he fell down upon me, took me up between his talons like a sheep, and carried me to the top of the mountain. The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 And she became at once miserable and discontented because she had not the roc's egg! The Secret Power When he wakes from his daydream, so weird are his surroundings that he thinks he must be in one of the places to which Sindbad was carried by the roc. The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America Every man who loved a woman wished to believe that she came to him out of the garden of a convent—out of a roc's egg, like the princess in the Arabian story. The Sleuth of St. James's Square It looked like the skeleton of some antediluvian wigwam which a prehistoric roc had subsequently chosen for a nest. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan When I found myself upon the ground, I made use of the knife, cut the skin, and throwing it off, the roc at the first sight of me flew away. The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 The roc that brought Sindbad across, The Calendar's own winged horse! Complete Poetical Works In the mean time the two rocs approached with a frightful noise, which they redoubled when they saw the egg broken, and their young one gone. The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 The other roc, to our misfortune, threw the stone so exactly upon the middle of the ship, that it split it in a thousand pieces. The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 |
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