Crossword-Solution: SHIRES 6 letters, 29 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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SHIRES anagram HISSER, RHESIS, SHERIS, SHIERS

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Devon and others. 1 answer
Worcester and York 1 answer
Traditional English hunting locale, with "the" 1 answer
Tolkienian settlements 1 answer
The ___, where Englishmen go a-hunting 1 answer
The ___ Midland counties 1 answer
Stafford and Worcester 1 answer
Oxford and Berks 1 answer
Midland counties of England. 1 answer
Local-government areas in Queensland 1 answer
Former English counties 1 answer
English draft horses 1 answer
English counties, once 1 answer
English counties 1 answer
Dorset and others. 1 answer
Devon and Dorset 1 answer
Derby and Devon 1 answer
Counties overseas 1 answer
Counties of England 1 answer
Counties like Cornwall 1 answer
Counties in Britain 1 answer
Counties across the pond 1 answer
COUNTIES 1 answer
British counties 1 answer
"The Hobbit" locales 1 answer
BRITISH BREED OF LARGE HEAVY DRAFT HORSE 10 answers
DEVON LOCALE 10 answers
DEVON CITY 10 answers
DEVON 11 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SHIRES (5)

XVII The third seemed not a troop or squadron small, But an huge host; nor seemed it so much grain In Egypt grew as to sustain them all; Yet from one town thereof came all that train, A town in people to huge shires equal, That did a thousand streets and more contain, Great Caire it hight, whose commons from each side Came swarming out to war, Campson their guide.
Jerusalem Delivered Torquato Tasso 1995
Then after Martinmas they went back again to Kent, and chose their winter-quarters on the Thames; obtaining their provisions from Essex, and from the shires that were next, on both sides of the Thames.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Unknown 1996
The news on telegraphic wires Sped swiftly o’er the lea, Excursion trains from distant shires Brought myriads to see.
Fifty Bab Ballads W. S. Gilbert 2019
Meanwhile William was taking very practical possession in the shires where late events had given him real authority.
William the Conqueror Edward Augustus Freeman 2013
Her father was Coel, second prince of Britain and king of that part of ancient England, which includes the present shires of Essex and of Suffolk, about the river Colne.
Historic Girls E. S. Brooks 1998

Quotes with SHIRES (3)

What passing bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifle's rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no prayers, nor bells, Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs, The shrill demented choirs of wailing shells, And bugles calling for them from sad shires. What candles may be held to speed them all? Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes, Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes. T…
Wilfred Owen The War Poems
We need to return to harmony with Nature and with each other, to become what humans were destined to be, builders of gardens and Shires, hobbits (if you will), not Masters over creatures great and small.
Steve Bivans Be a Hobbit, Save the Earth: the Guide to Sustainable Shire Living
[T]he hyphenation question is, and always has been and will be, different for English immigrants. One can be an Italian-American, a Greek-American, an Irish-American and so forth. (Jews for some reason prefer the words the other way around, as in 'American Jewish Congress' or 'American Jewish Committee.') And any of those groups can and does have a 'national day' parade on Fifth Avenue in New York. But there is no such thing as an 'English-American' let alone a 'British-Ameri…
Christopher Hitchens Hitch-22: A Memoir
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Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WP.

Used 42 times in crossword archives (1952–2023).