Crossword-Solution: WASTER 6 letters, 31 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The ventripotent mulatto, the great eater, worker, earner and waster, the man of much and witty laughter, the man of the great heart and alas! of the doubtful honesty, is a figure not yet clearly set before the world; he still awaits a sober and yet genial portrait; but with whatever art that may be touched, and whatever indulgence, it will not be the portrait of a precisian.

But in Fouquet, the waster, the lover of good cheer and wit and art, the swift transactor of much business, “_l’homme de bruit_, _l’homme de plaisir_, _l’homme qui n’est que parceque les autres sont_,” Dumas saw something of himself and drew the figure the more tenderly.

With the influence of Elaine’s money behind him he promised himself that he would find some occupation that would remove from himself the reproach of being a waster and idler.

For not as yet had any tidings come Of that wild fray to Aias stormy-souled, Nor to Achilles, waster of tower and town.

But thou--thine heart Is utterly mad, that thou hast greatly dared To threaten us with death this day! On thee Thy latest hour shall swiftly come--is come! Thee not thy sire the War-god now shall pluck Out of mine hand, but thou the debt shalt pay Of a dark doom, as when mid mountain-folds A pricket meets a lion, waster of herds.