Crossword-Solution: BONZES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BONZES | anagram | BENZOS |
We have 1 clue for the answer “BONZES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Buddhist priests or nuns | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BONZES (5)
Yet this learned prince declined from the pure and simple religion of his great ancestor: he sacrificed to the idol Fo; and his blind attachment to the lamas of Thibet and the bonzes of China 33 provoked the censure of the disciples of Confucius.
Yet this learned prince declined from the pure and simple religion of his great ancestor: he sacrificed to the idol Fo; and his blind attachment to the lamas of Thibet and the bonzes of China [33] provoked the censure of the disciples of Confucius.
See, for I send you Something! There, 'tis gone! Look in this corner,--mind you find it, John! III This was the matter of the note,-- A long-forgot deposit, Dropped in an Indian dragon's throat Deep in a fragrant closet, Piled with a dapper Dresden world,-- Beaux, beauties, prayers, and poses,-- Bonzes with squat legs undercurled, And great jars filled with roses.
Lockhart of Shangai, Carriers, Fantails, Tumblers, and other varieties are reared with care, especially by the bonzes or priests.
Bonzes march in front, dressed in robes of black gauze, having much the appearance of Catholic priests; the principal object of interest of the procession, the corpse, comes last, laid in a sort of little closed palanquin, which is daintily pretty.
Quotes with BONZES (1)
It grieved him plaguily, he said, to see the nuptial couch defrauded of its dearest pledges: and to reflect upon so many agreeable females with rich jointures, a prey for the vilest bonzes, who hide their flambeau under a bushel in an uncongenial cloister or lose their womanly bloom in the embraces of some unaccountable muskin when they might multiply the inlets of happiness, sacrificing the inestimable jewel of their sex when a hundred pretty fellows were at hand to caress, …
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Appears in: Universal.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2013).