Crossword-Solution: PLUMMETS
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| Drops straight down. | 1 answer |
| Sounding leads. | 1 answer |
| Takes a dive | 3 answers |
| Nose-dives | 4 answers |
| Dives. | 10 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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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
ZCEEAM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PLUMMETS (5)
CHAPTER VI It was high noon, and the rays of the sun, that hung poised directly overhead in an intolerable white glory, fell straight as plummets upon the roofs and streets of Guadalajara.
Hang early plummets upon the heels of pride, and let ambition have but an epicycle[127] or narrow circuit in thee.
FLY envious Time, till thou run out thy race, Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the heavy Plummets pace; And glut thy self with what thy womb devours, Which is no more then what is false and vain, And meerly mortal dross; So little is our loss, So little is thy gain.
When he came to the surface, twenty feet away, both birds were over him and dropped like plummets on his head.
When he rose Kaa’s coils were steadying him and things were bounding over the edge of the cliff--great lumps, it seemed, of clustered bees falling like plummets; but before any lump touched water the bees flew upward and the body of a dhole whirled down-stream.
Quotes with PLUMMETS (3)
What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish into the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will. Yet Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would wither in his breast. Prayer is the wind that fills…
The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.
Especially when it comes to animals used for food, humanity’s reasoning power and concern about fairness plummets.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1963–2013).