Crossword-Solution: RONCESVALLES
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
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greedy person
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Sentences with RONCESVALLES (5)
Francis and William Tell, are none the less real personages because their histories are filled with much that is fictitious and incredible, but in all cases what is essentially necessary is some external corroboration, such as is afforded by the mention of Roland and Roncesvalles in the chronicles of England, or (in the sphere of Greek legend) by the excavations of Hissarlik.
From the Feast of the Epiphany there was mustering and massing, until, in the first week of February--three days after the White Company joined the army--the word was given for a general advance through the defile of Roncesvalles.
Thou shalt see well, if thou arrivest there, how much the sense at distance is deceived; therefore somewhat more spur thyself on.” Then tenderly he took me by the hand, and said, “Before we go further forward, in order that the fact may seem less strange to thee, know that they are not towers, but giants, and they are in the abyss[2] round about the bank, from the navel downward, one and all of them.” [1] At Roncesvalles.
Sweetly across the path of Roncesvalles blow the evening gales, wafting tender messages to the listening girls below.
While marching through the narrow pass of Roncesvalles (_ron-thes-val'yes_), among the Pyrenees, Roland's division was attacked by a tribe called the Basques (_basks_), who lived on the mountain slopes of the neighboring region.
Quotes with RONCESVALLES (1)
I had fallen into a profound dream-like reverie in which I heard him speaking as at a distance. 'And yet there is no one who communes with only one god,' he was saying, 'and the more a man lives in imagination and in a refined understanding, the more gods does he meet with and talk with, and the more does he come under the power of Roland, who sounded in the Valley of Roncesvalles the last trumpet of the body's will and pleasure; and of Hamlet, who saw them perishing away, an…