Crossword-Solution: DESERTING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Deserting | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Desert |
We have 2 clues for the answer “DESERTING”
| Clue | Answers |
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| forsaking | 3 answers |
| Abdication | 22 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DESERTING (5)
The world of the German _literati_ consisted solely in bringing the new French ideas into harmony with their ancient philosophical conscience, or rather, in annexing the French ideas without deserting their own philosophic point of view.
Tarzan Again Leads the Mangani Achmet Zek with two of his followers had circled far to the south to intercept the flight of his deserting lieutenant, Werper.
Often had she wrote to her perfidious seducer, and with the most persuasive eloquence endeavoured to convince him of her innocence; but these letters were never suffered to reach the hands of Montraville, or they must, though on the very eve of marriage, have prevented his deserting the wretched girl.
But as you never attacked him for deserting me, it seemed needless for me to defend him.” “I confess,” said Bernard, “I am quite at sea about Gordon’s look in the matter.
The history of Mississippi piloting affords six or seven instances of this sort of martyrdom, and half a hundred instances of escapes from a like fate which came within a second or two of being fatally too late; _but there is no instance of a pilot deserting his post to save his life while by remaining and sacrificing it he might secure other lives from destruction._ It is well worth while to set down this noble fact, and well worth while to put it in italics, too.
Quotes with DESERTING (3)
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it i…
The magic beauty of simultaneity, to see the loved one rushing toward you at the same moment you are rushing toward him, the magic power of meeting, exactly at midnight to achieve union, the illusion of one common rhythm achieved by overcoming obstacles, deserting friends, breaking other bonds - all this was soon dissolved by his laziness, by his habit of missing every moment, of never keeping his word, of living perversely in a state of chaos, of swimming more naturally in a…
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.