Crossword-Solution: CENTIPEDES
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| Clue | Answers |
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| House scurriers | 1 answer |
| Primarily nocturnal arthropods | 1 answer |
| Bugs that technically are misnamed | 2 answers |
| A LARGE CLASS OF ARTHROPODS INCLUDING SPIDERS AND TICKS AND SCORPIONS AND DADDY LONGLEGS | 11 answers |
| Insects | 19 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CENTIPEDES (5)
You will never hear me complain again, Daddy dear, because Julia wears silk stockings and centipedes drop off the wall.
Isabel cowered before the poor skeleton in the corner, and the centipedes and snakes that filled the bottles on the shelves.
There is a common superstition that centipedes have the faculty of entering the ear and penetrating the brain, causing death.
Then comes a creeping as of centipedes running down the spine,—then a gasp and a great jump of the heart,—then a sudden flush and a beating in the vessels of the head,—then a long sigh,—and the poem is written.
Presently, recollecting that she was now in a wilderness given over to mutton, centipedes and privations, the incongruity of these luxuries struck her, and, with intuitive feminine suspicion, she began turning to the fly-leaves of volume after volume.
Quotes with CENTIPEDES (3)
I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic centipedes. Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts. What are you thinking, Amy? The question I've asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: What are you …
I think of that, too: her mind. Her brain, all those coils, and her thoughts shuttling through those coils like fast, frantic centipedes. Like a child, I picture opening her skull, unspooling her brain and sifting through it, trying to catch and pin down her thoughts. What are you thinking, Amy?
it wont be long now it wont be longman is making deserts of the earthit wont be long nowbefore man will have used it upso that nothing but antsand centipedes and scorpionscan find a living on it.... what man calls civilizationalways results in deserts.... men talk of money and industryof hard times and recoveriesof finance and economicsbut the ants wait and the scorpions waitfor while men talk they are making deserts all the timegetting the world ready for the conquering antd…
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Appears in: LAT, New Yorker, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2006–2020).