Crossword-Solution: EFFIGIES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Effigies | n. | See Effigy. |
| Effigies | pl. | of Effigy |
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| Oft-burned models | 1 answer |
| PAPER mache demons | 1 answer |
| Scarecrows, for example | 1 answer |
| Representations. | 5 answers |
| demons | 8 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EFFIGIES (5)
For an instant he stood silent and motionless as one of the mangy effigies at home, but only for an instant.
What are you hunting for in all these crypts and effigies?” “I am only looking for one word,” said Father Brown.
The most she would consent to do in this line was to spend half an hour at Madame Tussaud’s, where she saw several dusty wax effigies of members of the royal family.
She sweeps them away from grander places, I can tell you, for I've been with her at it.” This was what he began to say, but as he spoke his eyes came wide open, and behold, there were neither Apostles nor vergers there--not even a window with the effigies of holy men in it, but a dark heap of hay all about him, and the little panes in the roof of his loft glimmering blue in the light of the morning.
The chamber was quite empty save for the coffins in their niches, and some effigies in marble set at intervals about the walls.
Quotes with EFFIGIES (3)
The dusty tombs of long-dead exorcist priests lay in the alcoves below, surmounted by stone effigies, the features eroded by the passing of time and the reverent caresses of their grateful parishioners, a reminder, she knew all too well, of the brevity of life.
On moonlight nights the long, straight street and dirty white walls, nowhere darkened by the shadow of a tree, their peace untroubled by footsteps or a dog's bark, glimmered in the pale recession. The silent city was no more than an assemblage of huge, inert cubes, between which only the mute effigies of great men, carapaced in bronze, with their blank stone or metal faces, conjured up a sorry semblance of what the man had been. In lifeless squares and avenues these tawdry id…
I’ve written more about my parents than any writer in the history of the world, and I still return to their mysterious effigies as I try to figure out what it all means — some kind of annunciation or maybe even a summing-up They still exert immense control over me even though they’ve been dead for so long. But I can conjure up their images without exerting a thimbleful of effort.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1966–2015).