Crossword-Solution: EGGERS
We have 10 clues for the answer “EGGERS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" author Dave | 1 answer |
| "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" memoirist Dave | 1 answer |
| Moths harmful to trees | 1 answer |
| Nest robbers | 1 answer |
| Tent caterpillars | 1 answer |
| Certain moths | 2 answers |
| Goaders. | 2 answers |
| Some moths | 2 answers |
| Moths | 3 answers |
| Instigators. | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EGGERS (5)
Every operator at this game was attended by certain of his friends called eggers and bonnetters--the eggers to 'egg' on the green ones to bet, by betting themselves; and the bonnetters to 'bonnet' any green one who might happen to win--that is to say, to knock his hat over his eyes, whilst the operator and the others bolted with the stakes.
Baron Eggers, who in 1883 had a coffee farm of 2,000 acres just coming into bearing, found leisure from his other employments to explore some of the forests and--he being an authority on the subject--the facts he discovered and reported have been regarded of interest by travelers and students.
But with the nineteenth century came the white-man market "eggers", systematically taking or destroying every egg in every place they visited.
The "eggers" increased in numbers and thoroughness till the eggs decreased in the more accessible spots below paying quantities.
Soon followed the brothers Wilhelm and Rudolf Schadow: to these must be added Koch, Wintergerst, Sutter, Mosler, Veit, Schnorr, Eggers, Platner, and others.
Quotes with EGGERS (3)
There are some writers who sweep us along so strongly in their current of energy--Normal mailer, Tom Wolfe, Toni Morrison, William F. Buckley, Jr., Hunter Thompson, David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers--that we assume that when they go to work the words just flow. Nobody thinks of the effort they made every morning to turn on the switch. You also have to turn on the switch. Nobody is going to do it for you.
There are two kinds of people in the world. There are eggers and lightkeepers. The former are driven by acquisition and avarice. The latter are driven by curiosity and caution. Eggers take what they can, consequences be damned. Lightkeepers take what they need, nothing more. Eggers want to have. Lightkeepers want to be.
The eggers destroy all the eggs that are sat upon, to force the birds to lay fresh eggs, and by robbing them regularly compel them to lay until nature is exhausted, and so but few young ones are raised.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NYT, WSJ.
Used 14 times in crossword archives (1946–2022).