Crossword-Solution: UPSTROKES
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
CRNAEO
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with UPSTROKES (5)
The times I've written it, thick down strokes, thin upstrokes! Well, that's like any of these ologies--biology especially.
SLOPING STEM STITCH.] This kind of stem stitch is chiefly used for the fine upstrokes of letters and numbers, and for linen embroidery.
There were a certain number of slips printed from copperplate and pasted upon cardboard at Dr Dunham's, all consisting of good, sterling advice to the young, which the boys had had to copy over and over again, so as to get in the habit of writing a good, clear, round hand, with fine upstrokes and good, firm downstrokes; and one of them which Nic had well in mind was, "Judge not rashly." But Nic did judge rashly all the same.
The letters are somewhat rounded, and the upstrokes and downstrokes usually have a slight inclination.
The pens were quill pens past mending, or overwhelmed by too heartfelt nibs; or magnum bonums whose upstrokes were morally as wide as Portland Place, or parvum malums that perforated syllables and spluttered.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1995).