Crossword-Solution: SHALLS
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
REAA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SHALLS (5)
Ought, ought, ought, ought, ought! Are you going to spend your life saying ought, like the rest of our moralists? Turn your oughts into shalls, man.
You saw how she kept her feet among her shalls and wills? Never trust a Scotch man or woman who does not come to grief among them." The doctor took his seat in the dog-cart.
Great church-goers and Sabbath-keepers, great distributors of shalls and shall-nots, great observers of scruples and ordinances.
Jowett (Thu Note: The present tense, I dare, is really an old past tense, so that the third person is he dare, but the form he dares is now often used, and will probably displace the obsolescent he dare, through grammatically as incorrect as he shalls or he cans.
You saw how she kept her feet among her shalls and wills? Never trust a Scotch man or woman who does not come to grief among them." The doctor took his seat in the dogcart.
Quotes with SHALLS (1)
... Likewise, Oscar Wilde asked an English journalist to look over 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' before publication: "Will you also look after my 'wills' and 'shalls' in proof. I am Celtic in my use of these words, not English." Wilde's novel upset virtually every code of late Victorian respectability, but he had to get his modal auxiliaries just right.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1963).