Crossword-Solution: PILON
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Sculptor Germain | 1 answer |
| Southwestern lagniappe | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PILON (5)
Planchet, a grocer, Rue des Lombards, at the sign of the Pilon d’Or.” “Go out but little, show yourself less, and await my orders.” “And yet, sire, I must go for the money.” “That is true, but when going to the superintendence, where so many people are constantly going, you must mingle with the crowd.” “I want the notes, sire, for the money.” “Here they are.” The king signed them, and D’Artagnan looked on, to assure himself of their regularity.
Let the reader imagine all these grotesque figures of the Pont Neuf, those nightmares petrified beneath the hand of Germain Pilon, assuming life and breath, and coming in turn to stare you in the face with burning eyes; all the masks of the Carnival of Venice passing in succession before your glass,—in a word, a human kaleidoscope.
The figures of Justice and Pity by its side were originally designed by Germain Pilon, but are now replaced by copies.
Behind us towered high the snowy Pilon (Sugar-loaf), whose every wave and fold were picked out by golden sunlight, azure half-light, and purple shade.
They make the old vent ten leagues round.] The altitude is 6,900 feet, nearly double the height of Vesuvius (3,890 feet); and the lines sweep upwards towards the Pilon, where they reach 8,950 feet.
Quotes with PILON (3)
Pilon complained, "It is not a good story. There are too many meanings and too many lessons in it. Some of those lessons are opposite. There is not a story to take into your head. It proves nothing.""I like it" said Pablo. "I like it because it hasn't any meaning you can see, and still it does seem to mean something, I can't tell what.
The story was gradually taking shape. Pilon liked it this way. It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly. The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer's own experience.
Now Pilon knew it for a perfect night. A high fog covered the sky, and behind it, the moon shone so so that the forest was filled with a gauze-like light. There was none of the sharp outline we think of as reality. The tree trunks were not black columns of wood, but soft and unsubstantial shadows. The patches of brush were formless and shifting in the queer light. Ghosts could walk freely to-night, without fear of the disbelif of men; for this night was haunted, and it would …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WP.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1989–1999).