Crossword-Solution: BODLEIAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bodleian | a. | Of or pertaining to Sir Thomas Bodley, or to the celebrated library at Oxford, founded by him in the sixteenth century. |
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BODLEIAN | anagram | BAILEDON |
We have 3 clues for the answer “BODLEIAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bodley | 1 answer |
| Library of Oxford University. | 1 answer |
| Oxford's famous library. | 1 answer |
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Sentences with BODLEIAN (5)
The Bodleian Club is composed of gentlemen of culture, who are interested in books and book-collecting.
Ivan Lake, the editor of the 'Bodleian', a contemporary at Cambridge, tells me that although the two men moved in different sets, they frequented the same literary circles.
His character is exemplified in this prayer, which is preserved among other papers of his in the Bodleian Library: "O most gracious and merciful Lord God, wonderful is Thy providence.
The method of making playing-cards seems to have given the first hint to the invention of printing, as appears from the first specimens of printing at Haerlem, and those in the Bodleian Library.
Paul:) he raised himself to the honors of senator, judge of the veil, and great logothete; beheld the fall of the empire, retired to Nice, and composed an elaborate history from the death of Alexius Comnenus to the reign of Henry.] 95 (return) [ A manuscript of Nicetas in the Bodleian library contains this curious fragment on the statues of Constantinople, which fraud, or shame, or rather carelessness, has dropped in the common editions.
Quotes with BODLEIAN (3)
I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the smell and feel of all those books.
The Bodleian above anything else made Oxford what it was . . . There was something incommunicably grand about it, something difficult to understand unless you had spent your evenings there or walked past it on the way to celebrate the boat race, a magic that came from ignoring it a thousand times a day and then noticing its overwhelming beauty when you came out of a tiny alley and it caught you unexpectedly. A library--it didn't sound like much, but it was what made Oxford it…
For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a wild and savage tribe that fed on unwary travellers.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1950–1951).