Crossword-Solution: AILES 5 letters, 33 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Yet, although unmarried, perhaps because unmarried, he heartily admired many clever women; formed with them sedate but genuine friendships, the _l’amour sans ailes_, sometimes called “Platonic” by persons who have not read Plato; found in their illogical clear-sightedness, in their ἀγχίνοια, to use the master’s own untranslatable phrase, a titillating stimulus which he missed in men.

Every one knows those two lines of Voltaire's-- "Aranda dans l'Espagne instruisant les fidèles, A l'inquisition vient de rogner les ailes." * * "Aranda in Spain instructing the faithful at the Inquisition has just clipped wings." --Transcriber.

Let us give an instance:—it is from the amusing novel called “Les Ailes d’Icare,” and contains what is to us quite a new picture of a French fashionable rogue.

Comme des oiseaux qui rallient à un rappel, ils se rassemblaient à la suite de se croiseur; il en sortait même des coins vides de l’horizon, et leurs petites ailes grisâtres apparaissaient partout.

Ensuite, la campagne, déjà chaude; des chemins ombreux où volaient d’admirables papillons aux ailes de velours bleu.