Crossword-Solution: ROCS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ROCS | anagram | CORS, OCRS, ORCS, ROSC |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ROCS (5)
These birds were of enormous size, and reminded Zeb of the rocs he had read about in the Arabian Nights.
The two rocs approached with a frightful noise, which they redoubled when they saw the egg broken and their young one gone.
Marsden, in his notes to his translation of Marco Polo's _Voyages_, supposes the roc to be a description of the albatross or condor, under greatly exaggerated terms.] The two rocs approached with a frightful noise, which they redoubled when they saw the egg broken, and their young one gone.
Turkeys got to be about a thousand dollars apiece-- "Papa!" "Well, what?" "You're beginning to fib." "Well, _two_ thousand, then." And they got to passing off almost anything for turkeys--half-grown humming-birds, and even rocs out of the _Arabian Nights_--the real turkeys were so scarce.
James heard him with envy, doubtful of the land "where rocs flew away with elephants." But when Benjamin showed the men his watch, and finally shared with them a silver dollar in hospitalities, he fancied that his brother had come there to insult him, and he felt more bitterly toward him than ever before.
Quotes with ROCS (2)
It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn its might against them. Unfortunately man is preyed upon by microbes, which are too small to be appreciated.
But in truth, neither the lonely meditations of the hermit nor the turmulos raptures of the reveller, are capable of satisfying man’s heart. From the one we gather unquiet speculation, from the other satiety. The mind flags beneath the weight of thought, and droops in thee heartless intercourse of those whose sole aim is amusement. There is no fruition in their vacant kindness, and sharp rocs lur beneath the smiling ripples of these shallow waters.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 193 times in crossword archives (1951–2022).