Crossword-Solution: LEPERS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LEPERS | anagram | ELPERS, PERLES, REPELS |
We have 14 clues for the answer “LEPERS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Biblical outcasts | 1 answer |
| Fr. Damien's beneficiaries. | 1 answer |
| Hansen's disease victims | 1 answer |
| MOLOKAI island inhabitants | 1 answer |
| Middle Ages colony residents | 1 answer |
| Ostracized group in the Bible | 1 answer |
| Ostracized people | 1 answer |
| Outcasts, once | 1 answer |
| Socially-shunned persons | 1 answer |
| Some biblical outcasts | 1 answer |
| Some old colonists | 1 answer |
| Colony residents | 2 answers |
| Pariahs | 2 answers |
| Outcasts | 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 LEPERS (5)
There came to Samoa a man from Honolulu; he, in a public-house on the beach, volunteered the statement that Damien had ‘contracted the disease from having connection with the female lepers’; and I find a joy in telling you how the report was welcomed in a public-house.
But if ten lepers were healed, and but one returned to give thanks, I desire to be as that one, and to be thankful for myself.
There you see soldiers and robbers, ghastly lepers and horrible and uncouth maimed and blind, exhibiting their terrible nakedness in the sun.
The swollen, childish, and pedantic vanity that moved the said revisers to put ‘bring’ for ‘lead,’ is a sort of literary fault that calls for an eternal hell; it may be quite a small place, a star of the least magnitude, and shabbily furnished; there shall —, —, the revisers of the Bible and other absolutely loathsome literary lepers, dwell among broken pens, bad, _groundy_ ink and ruled blotting-paper made in France—all eagerly burning to write, and all inflicted with incurable aphasia.
Our lepers were sent on the first boat, about a dozen, one poor child very horrid, one white man, leaving a large grown family behind him in Honolulu, and then into the second stepped the sisters and myself.
Quotes with LEPERS (3)
I thought that to get to know a desert it was enough to have been there. I thought that to have seen the dogs dying along the Cholula road, or to have seen the eyes of the lepers at Chiengmai gave me the right to talk about it. To have seen! To have been there! Rubbish! The world is not a book, it proves nothing. The spaces one has crossed were dark corridors with closed doors. The faces of the women to whom one gave oneself up completely: did they speak for anyone but themse…
They might watch American movies, wear American clothes, even read American books but Bush and the Iraq War have made actual American people social lepers; she only has to open her mouth in some places to feel a wave of loathing directed at her. Katie is weary of pointing out that at least half her countrymen detest their President even more than Europe does, but it’s no good.
B-but, Mr Jimson, I w-want to be an artist.''Of course you do,' I said, 'everybody does once. But they get over it, thank God, like the measles and the chickenpox. Go home and go to bed and take some hot lemonade and put on three blankets and sweat it out.''But Mr J-Jimson, there must be artists.''Yes, and lunatics and lepers, but why go and live in an asylum before you're sent for? If you find life a bit dull at home,' I said, 'and want to amuse yourself, put a stick of dyna…
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Appears in: Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 26 times in crossword archives (1963–2020).