Crossword-Solution: BARTLEBY
We have 1 clue for the answer “BARTLEBY”
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| Melville character with the mantra "I would prefer not to" | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BARTLEBY (5)
Before I knew him, I used sometimes to meet him with a man whom I was afterwards told was Bartleby, the scrivener.
While, of other law-copyists, I might write the complete life, of Bartleby nothing of that sort can be done.
Bartleby was one of those beings of whom nothing is ascertainable, except from the original sources, and, in his case, those are very small.
What my own astonished eyes saw of Bartleby, _that_ is all I know of him, except, indeed, one vague report, which will appear in the sequel.
Still further to a satisfactory arrangement, I procured a high green folding screen, which might entirely isolate Bartleby from my sight, though not remove him from my voice.
Quotes with BARTLEBY (3)
He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and A Christmas Carol over A Tale of Two Cities or The Pickwick Papers. What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watc…
He’s going to kill me,” Peppone murmured, his jaw drooping, “or at least send out the order to have someone take care of me. Well,” with a sigh, “might as well get rid of this body before the others wake up.” He canted his head and mused to himself. “Maybe I should carve it up first.” “At long last,” Bartleby cried, raising his eyes and wringing his hands, “somebody who has no regard for collective conscience and general morality. Oh, happy, happy morning!” “Take care, Peppon…
I don't talk ill about people I don't know," said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2024).