smoke around

present singular third person smokes around · participle present smoking around · participle past smoked around · past smoked around · alternative smoke round

1. intransitiveobsoleteTo give off smoke or steam; to be smoking.

   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,

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

   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

   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.

   1762, James Macpherson, Fingal, London: T. Becket and P.A. de Hondt, Book 1, pp. 12-13

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

   1803, Robert Charles Dallas, The History of the Maroons, London: Longman and Rees, Volume 1, Letter 8, p. 256

   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,