Crossword-Solution: BROBDINGNAGIANS
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
EEN
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with BROBDINGNAGIANS (5)
For who can read of the virtues I have mentioned in the glorious _Houyhnhnms_, without being ashamed of his own vices, when he considers himself as the reasoning, governing animal of his country? I shall say nothing of those remote nations where _Yahoos_ preside; among which the least corrupted are the _Brobdingnagians_; whose wise maxims in morality and government it would be our happiness to observe.
The _Lilliputians_, I think, are hardly worth the charge of a fleet and army to reduce them; and I question whether it might be prudent or safe to attempt the _Brobdingnagians_; or whether an English army would be much at their ease with the Flying Island over their heads.
They had a chance of taking prisoners at Longueval, where they rummaged in German dugouts after the line had been taken by the 15th Scottish Division and the 3d, and they brought back a number of enormous Bavarians who were like the Brobdingnagians to these little men of Lilliput and disgusted with that humiliation.
For these great works are also guide-books, containing everything we want to learn, only made on so huge a scale as to be suited to the coat pockets of Brobdingnagians rather than of little ordinary men.
One might have imagined he saw before him the tented camps of a beleaguering host of Brobdingnagians.
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Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1983–1999).