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English
Verb
smoke around (third-person singular simple present smokes around, present participle smoking around, simple past and past participle smoked around)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To give off smoke or steam; to be smoking.
1755, Joseph Warton, “The Revenge of America”, in Robert Dodsley, editor, A Collection of Poems in Four Volumes, volume 4, London: R. and J. Dodsley, page 209:He broke his arrows, stampt the ground,
To view his cities smoaking round.
1762, James Macpherson, Fingal, London: T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, Book 1, pp. 12-13: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,
1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 8, p. 256: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,—