Crossword-Solution: BOSWELL
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BOSWELL | anagram | BELLOWS |
We have 13 clues for the answer “BOSWELL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Author of 1951 best seller. | 1 answer |
| Biographer's box office surge (7) | 1 answer |
| Dr. Johnson's biographer | 1 answer |
| Dr. Johnson's right-hand man. | 1 answer |
| Famed biographer of Samuel Johnson | 1 answer |
| Famous biographer. | 1 answer |
| His "Journal" is a best seller. | 1 answer |
| Johnson biographer | 1 answer |
| Samuel Johnson's biographer | 1 answer |
| Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson | 1 answer |
| Scottish biographer James | 1 answer |
| A DEVOTED ADMIRER AND RECORDER OF ANOTHER'S WORDS AND DEEDS | 11 answers |
| SCOTTISH clan | 60 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NCOAER
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with BOSWELL (5)
ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT In the appendix to Croker’s Boswell’s Johnson one finds this anecdote: _Cato’s Soliloquy_.—One day Mrs.
They came to the Pool of London, and who can describe its majesty? The imagination thrills, and Heaven knows what figures people still its broad stream, Doctor Johnson with Boswell by his side, an old Pepys going on board a man-o’-war: the pageant of English history, and romance, and high adventure.
Boswell’s _Life of Johnson_ (a work of cunning and inimitable art) owes its success to the same technical manœuvres as (let us say) _Tom Jones_: the clear conception of certain characters of man, the choice and presentation of certain incidents out of a great number that offered, and the invention (yes, invention) and preservation of a certain key in dialogue.
Again, at the ‘woeful Union,’ it was here that people crowded to escort their favourite from the last of Scottish parliaments: people flushed with nationality, as Boswell would have said, ready for riotous acts, and fresh from throwing stones at the author of ‘Robinson Crusoe’ as he looked out of window.
These are a copy each of the 'New England Primer' and Grimm's 'Household Stories.'" At the age of twenty-three, having been graduated from college and having read the poems of Villon, the confessions of Rousseau, and Boswell's life of Johnson, I was convinced that I had comprehended the sum of human wisdom and knew all there was worth knowing.
Quotes with BOSWELL (3)
I think that I had better go, Holmes.""Not a bit, doctor. Stay where you are. I am lost without my Boswell.
His Scotch bear-leader, Mr Boswell, was a butt of the first quality.
Of all the queer sources of romance, ours lay in the discovery that each was an addict of Boswell's Life of Johnson. H.E.G. had a first edition of the Journey to the Hebrides, which I coveted mightily. Why not acquire the book honorably, marry the man, and have it around the house?
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1943–2025).