Crossword-Solution: QUARTOS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Quartos | pl. | of Quarto |
We have 5 clues for the answer “QUARTOS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Book sizes made of sheets folded twice | 1 answer |
| Certain pages | 1 answer |
| Publishing formats for Shakespeare | 1 answer |
| Paper sizes | 5 answers |
| A DAILY OR WEEKLY PUBLICATION ON FOLDED SHEETS | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with QUARTOS (5)
Wherefore, when supported by the bounty of the aforesaid prince of worthy memory, we were enabled to oppose or advance, to appoint or to discharge; crazy quartos and tottering folios, precious however in our sight as in our affections, flowed in most rapidly from the great and the small, instead of new year's gifts and remunerations, and instead of presents and jewels.
Eminent Lutheran divines in the seventeenth century, like Gerhard, Calovius, Coccerus, and multitudes of others, wrote scores of quartos to further this system, and the other branch of the Protestant Church emulated their example.
Around the walls stood several oaken bookcases, the lower shelves of which were filled with rows of gigantic folios and black-letter quartos, and the upper with little parchment-covered duodecimos.
Surely it was happiness, when the pastor, fortified with a substantial breakfast, sat down in his arm-chair and slippers and opened the Whole Body of Divinity, or the Commentary on Job, or whichever of his old folios or quartos might fall within the range of his weekly sermons.
His secluded room I could picture to myself with a sense of certainty--the couch (a sofa by day), the cupboard, the writing-table with its student lamp, the litter of pamphlets and old quartos and octavos in tattered bindings, among which were scarce reprints of his beloved Charles Lamb, and perhaps--nay, surely--an _editio princeps_ of the “Essays.” The gentle Elia never had a gentler follower or a more loving disciple than Tom Folio.
Quotes with QUARTOS (1)
I go downstairs and the books blink at me from the shelves. Or stare. In a trick of the light, a row of them seems to shift very slightly, like a curtain blown by the breeze through an open window. Red is next to blue is next to cream is adjacent to beige. But when I look again, cream is next to green is next to black. A tall book shelters a small book, a huge Folio bullies a cowering line of Quartos. A child's nursery rhyme book does not have the language in which to speak t…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1971–2010).