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smoke around en · VERB
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(intransitive, obsolete) To give off smoke or steam; to be smoking.
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. 256:1801, 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,
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: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 209:1821, 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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