Crossword-Solution: SWAINS
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| Country gallants | 1 answer |
| They may come a-wooing | 1 answer |
| Steady flames. | 1 answer |
| Rustic lovers | 1 answer |
| Rustic gallants. | 1 answer |
| Ren Faire suitors | 1 answer |
| Ren Faire beaus | 1 answer |
| Old-time suitors | 1 answer |
| Old boyfriends | 1 answer |
| Male suitors | 1 answer |
| Lads who come a-courting | 1 answer |
| Courters | 1 answer |
| Country lads | 1 answer |
| Boyfriends, quaintly | 1 answer |
| Boyfriends of yore | 1 answer |
| Beaux of old | 1 answer |
| Beaus of yore | 1 answer |
| Beaus of old | 1 answer |
| Wooers | 2 answers |
| Male admirers | 3 answers |
| They come to court | 4 answers |
| AMERICAN Samoa island | 5 answers |
| Suitors | 5 answers |
| Lovers | 11 answers |
| Beaus. | 11 answers |
| BEAUX ___ | 14 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
EEN
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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Sentences with SWAINS (5)
Bob Coggan was sent home for his ill manners, and tranquility was restored by Jacob Smallbury, who volunteered a ballad as inclusive and interminable as that with which the worthy toper old Silenus amused on a similar occasion the swains Chromis and Mnasylus, and other jolly dogs of his day.
The schoolmaster is generally a man of some importance in the female circle of a rural neighborhood; being considered a kind of idle, gentlemanlike personage, of vastly superior taste and accomplishments to the rough country swains, and, indeed, inferior in learning only to the parson.
The Muses made Me too a singer; I too have sung; the swains Call me a poet, but I believe them not: For naught of mine, or worthy Varius yet Or Cinna deem I, but account myself A cackling goose among melodious swans.
Furthermore The Ausonian swains, a race from Troy derived, Make merry with rough rhymes and boisterous mirth, Grim masks of hollowed bark assume, invoke Thee with glad hymns, O Bacchus, and to thee Hang puppet-faces on tall pines to swing.
Moreover the goodmen and swains of the said township were no ill folk, but bold of heart, free of speech, and goodly of favour; and the women of them fair, kind, and trusty.
Quotes with SWAINS (1)
In all my wanderings through this world of care, In all my griefs -- and God has given my share --I still had hopes, my latest hours to crown, Amidst these humble bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting, by repose: I still had hopes, for pride attends us still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learn'd skill, Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt, and all I saw; And, as a hare, whom hounds and …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Three Across, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 25 times in crossword archives (1946–2020).