Crossword-Solution: PHEBE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Phebe | n. | See Phoebe. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “PHEBE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Shepherdess in "As You Like It." | 1 answer |
| Small bird: Var. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PHEBE (5)
When John Vincent, after waiting twelve years, married Phebe Etheridge, the whole neighborhood experienced that sense of relief and satisfaction which follows the triumph of the right.
There were two views of the case when John Vincent's love for Phebe, and old Reuben Etheridge's hard prohibition of the match, first became known to the community.
They were married: John, a grave man in middle age, weather-beaten and worn by years of hard work and self-denial, yet not beyond the restoration of a milder second youth; and Phebe a sad, weary woman, whose warmth of longing had been exhausted, from whom youth and its uncalculating surrenders of hope and feeling had gone forever.
And you might mistake, after all, in giving 'em names--” “There is no oldest or youngest, John; they are two and yet one: this is mine, and this is yours.” “I see no difference at all, Phebe,” said John; “and how can we divide them?” “We will not divide,” she answered; “I only meant it as a sign.” She smiled, for the first time in many days.
The ribbon of the older one had been removed, and the nurse would have been distracted, but for Phebe's almost miraculous instinct.
Quotes with PHEBE (2)
Yes, Phebe was herself now, and it showed in the change that came over her at the first note of music. No longer shy and silent, no longer the image of a handsome girl, but a blooming woman, alive and full of the eloquence her art gave her, as she laid her hands softly together, fixed her eye on the light, and just poured out her song as simply and joyfully as the lark does soaring toward the sun. "My faith, Alec! that's the sort of voice that wins a man's heart out of his br…
We've got a yawl named the Phebe, which is named for a boat in a whaling journal my father and I edited. We keep a copy of the journal on board.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1957–1978).