Crossword-Solution: VERDUN
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| FRENCH fortress town | 1 answer |
| in some of the bloodiest fighting in World War I the German offensive was stopped | 1 answer |
| battle of 1916 on the meuse river | 1 answer |
| WWI battle city | 1 answer |
| W.W. I's longest battle | 1 answer |
| W.W. I battlefield | 1 answer |
| Scene of battle, 1916. | 1 answer |
| Scene of Pétain's heroism, 1916. | 1 answer |
| Battleground on the Meuse, World War I. | 1 answer |
| Battleground of W. W. I. | 1 answer |
| Battleground of 1916. | 1 answer |
| WW I battle FRAY FIGHT MELEE ACTION | 2 answers |
| World War I battleground | 2 answers |
| World War I battle site | 3 answers |
| WORLD War I battle | 5 answers |
| WWI battle site | 8 answers |
| BATTLE SITE OF 1916 | 10 answers |
| A BATTLE IN WORLD WAR I | 11 answers |
| BATTLE FRAY FIGHT MELEE ACTION WW I | 12 answers |
| FRENCH city/town | 67 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with VERDUN (5)
Even as late as the seventeenth century a French ambassador brought a stone hatchet, which still exists in the museum at Nancy, as a present to the Prince-Bishop of Verdun, and claimed for it health-giving virtues.
During the great French War, among other means resorted to in order to ease the English prisoners at Verdun of their loose cash, a gaming table was set up for their sole accommodation, and, as usual, led to scenes of great depravity and horror.
What was implied by French protection had been seen in the conduct of France towards the bishoprics of Metz, Toul, and Verdun, which it had held for centuries against the rightful owners.
Here is a rhyme I have made of such an one: Priscilla Jerry MacMullen, the millionaire, Driving a red-meat bus out there-- How did he win his _Croix de Guerre_? Bless you, that's all old stuff: Beast of a night on the Verdun road, Jerry stuck with a woeful load, Stalled in the mud where the red lights glowed, Prospect devilish tough.
They could talk of nothing but incidents of the installation, repeating the news gathered from the ministers with whom they were living on familiar terms, or mentioning with a mysterious air, the great battle which was going on stretching from the vicinity of Paris to Verdun.
Quotes with VERDUN (3)
He had volunteered early, rather than waiting to be conscripted, for he felt a duty and an obligation to serve, and believed that ... being willing to fight for his country and the liberty it represented, would make some small difference. ... His idealism was one of the casualties of the carnage [of Verdun].
Three times Jan had been called to the colours (the army), but each time had been deferred because of his deplorable physical condition..when every male who could stand halfway erect was being shipped to Verdun to undergo a radical change in posture from the vertical to the eternal horizontal
No wonder the summer solstice had been such a fun day in northern Europe before Christian missionaries arrived from the sunny south. If priests had not driven sex underground, what would the north have been like? Would art have flourished in the absence of sexual repression? What about artillery and fortification? The Reformation? The Thirty Years War? The French Revolution? The final perfection of murder as blood sport at Verdun and Dresden and in the Gulag? In short, where would we be without Jesus?
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1943–2021).