Crossword-Solution: URCHINS
We have 13 clues for the answer “URCHINS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Kids on the street | 1 answer |
| Oliver Twist and friends | 1 answer |
| Roguish children | 1 answer |
| Spiny creatures | 1 answer |
| Spiny sea creatures | 1 answer |
| Tide pool sights | 2 answers |
| Street kids | 2 answers |
| Whelps | 2 answers |
| Waifs | 3 answers |
| Bratty kids | 3 answers |
| Ragamuffins | 3 answers |
| Gamins. | 4 answers |
| Scamps | 7 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with URCHINS (5)
This bread I used to bestow upon the hungry little urchins, who, in return, would give me that more valuable bread of knowledge.
How could the flogger of urchins be otherwise than animated and joyous? The lady of his heart was his partner in the dance, and smiling graciously in reply to all his amorous oglings; while Brom Bones, sorely smitten with love and jealousy, sat brooding by himself in one corner.
The old man always seemed pleased when he saw a troop of darkey little urchins, with their tow-linen shirts fluttering in the breeze, approaching to view and admire the whirling wings of his wondrous machine.
His soul palpitating with love of art, he painted the models who hung about the stairway of Bernini in the Piazza de Spagna, undaunted by their obvious picturesqueness; and his studio was full of canvases on which were portrayed moustachioed, large-eyed peasants in peaked hats, urchins in becoming rags, and women in bright petticoats.
While I was still in the midst of my household gear, with a bunch of keys at my girdle, looking like the chatelaine of a medieval château, who should be ushered in but Jimmie? Being extremely occupied, I dropped a slanting kiss on his nose, and sent him off to look over the place in charge of my two oldest urchins.
Quotes with URCHINS (3)
I don't know who had the training of you," he continued doggedly, "but your morals are shocking. You spent a night in my bed, remember, after a night in a bawdy house. You go about collecting street urchins and letting inebriated vagabonds kiss you, and then you get into brawls in pawnshops. You are probably past all redemption, but I'm going to reform you anyhow. If you behave yourself, perhaps I'll let you reform me on occasion, but I make no promises.
Now observe that in all the propaganda of the ecologists — amidst all their appeals to nature and pleas for “harmony with nature” — there is no discussion of man’s needs and the requirements of his survival. Man is treated as if he were an unnatural phenomenon. Man cannot survive in the kind of state of nature that the ecologists envision — i.e., on the level of sea urchins or polar bears.... In order to survive, man has to discover and produce everything he needs, which mean…
The smooth, flat rocks were exactly the same, the sea pounded down on them in the same way, and also the landscape under the water, with its small valleys and bays and steep chasms and slopes, strewn with starfish and sea urchins, crabs and fish, was the same. You could still buy Slazenger tennis rackets, Tretorn balls, and Rossignol skis, Tyrolia bindings and Koflach boots. The houses where we lived were still standing, all of them. The sole difference, which is the differen…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Slate, Universal.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1970–2023).