Crossword-Solution: POSSUMUS
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| Non ___ (we cannot), a plea of inability: Lat. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The anal opening of certain invertebrates and fishes; also,
the external cloacal opening of reptiles, birds, amphibians, and many
fishes.
Hint 2 anagram
VETN
Hint 3 another clue
Discharge
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Sentences with POSSUMUS (5)
The weather had turned cold again, for it was the end of our changeable March, and the fireplace in the common room of the club was heaped high with hickory logs, a cheerful sight, were it not for that odious motto, "Non Possumus," graven over the mantel-shelf where it must inevitably meet every eye.
But at the July meeting he could only report a non possumus answer for the current year (1852) from the Government, and a resolution was passed recommending that application on the subject be renewed by the British Association in the following year.
You use horrible words, my poor child, but non omnia possumus omnes." She listened at first with lowering brows, and eyes which watched me guardedly.
His lawyer pleaded with him, said he would be able to save something out of the wreck, and that his creditors would be willing that he should take advantage of the privileges of that court; but he only said in reply: "Thank you, thank you altogether, monsieur, but it is impossible--'non possumus, non possumus, my son,' as the Pope said to Bonaparte.
His lawyer pleaded with him, said he would be able to save something out of the wreck, and that his creditors would be willing that he should take advantage of the privileges of that court; but he only said in reply: “Thank you, thank you altogether, monsieur, but it is impossible--‘non possumus, non possumus, my son,’ as the Pope said to Bonaparte.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1960).