Crossword-Solution: AVARE 5 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

From somewhere behind Ivor began to sing again, softly: “Phillis plus avare que tendre Ne gagnant rien à refuser, Un jour exigea à Silvandre Trente moutons pour un baiser.” The melody drooped and climbed again with a kind of easy languor; the warm darkness seemed to pulse like blood about them.

The nickname was “Single-speech Hamilton,” Harpagon, the miser in Moliere’s L’Avare Hawkins, Sir John.

With a raised voice, and a graceful, bantering smile, the king concluded: “C’est a toi Cygne des Saxons, D’arracher ce secret a la nature avare; D’adoucir dans tes chants d’une langue barbare, Les durs et detestables sons’” [Footnote: Oeuvres Posthumes, vol.

This rigidity may be manifested, when the time comes, by puppet-like movements, and then it will provoke laughter; but, before that, it had already alienated our sympathy: how can we put ourselves in tune with a soul which is not in tune with itself? In Moliere's L'Avare we have a scene bordering upon drama.

His Avare, where vice destroys all affection between father and son, is one of the most sublime works, and dramatic in the highest degree.