Crossword-Solution: THACKERAY
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| "Vanity Fair" author | 1 answer |
| Creator of Becky Sharp. | 1 answer |
| Messrs. Titmarsh, Fitzboodle and Brown. | 1 answer |
| English writer | 16 answers |
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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
EZEMAC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with THACKERAY (5)
Equally gravely he saluted, and the car, after moving through certain dignified arcs, swam swiftly away down Thackeray Boulevard.
Unfortunately we haven’t got a PEERAGE, like the people in Thackeray.” “That’s a great pity,” said Beaumont.
Fytte VII Cito Pede Preterit Aetas [A Philosophical Dissertation] "Gillian's dead, God rest her bier-- How I loved her many years syne; Marion's married, but I sit here, Alive and merry at three-score year, Dipping my nose in Gascoigne wine."--Wamba's Song--Thackeray.
These freedoms are not tolerated in American noveldom, and only a few futile "high-brows" sigh in vain for Thackeray's "happy harmless Fableland, where these things are." The majority of us are deep in "vital" novels.
Higher up I could see among the crowd the high forehead of Sir Walter Scott, the masculine features of George Eliott, and the flattened nose of Thackeray; while amongst the living I recognised James Payn, Walter Besant, the lady known as “Ouida,” Robert Louis Stevenson, and several of lesser note.
Quotes with THACKERAY (3)
I do not think he (Chester Arthur) knows anything. He can quote a verse from poetry or a page from Dickens or Thackeray, but these are only leaves springing from a root out of dry ground. His vital forces are not fed, and very soon he has given out his all.
I like Mr. Dickens’ books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray’s daughters.
One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux of Fielding may still make love to the belles of Richardson, where Scott’s heroes still may strut, Dickens’s delightful Cockneys still raise a laugh, and Thackeray’s worldlings continue to carry on their reprehensible careers. Perhaps in some humble corner of such a Valhalla, Sherlock and his Watson may for a time find a place, while some more …
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1949–1991).