Crossword-Solution: WIMSEY
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| "Murder Must Advertise" sleuth | 1 answer |
| Sayers detective | 1 answer |
| Sayers detective Lord Peter | 1 answer |
| Sayers investigator Lord Peter ___ | 1 answer |
| Sayers's detective | 2 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
MZECEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with WIMSEY (5)
SAYERS A Lord Peter Wimsey Novel [Illustration] HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS WHOSE BODY? Copyright, 1923, by Dorothy Sayers Printed in the United States of America All rights in this book are reserved.
But he was acquitted all the same, an’ what you’ve just said is libel.” Wimsey walked over to the bookshelf and took down a volume of Medical Jurisprudence.
You could hardly call it a print.” “It rained hard all last night, of course.” “Yes; did you notice that the soot on the window-sill was vaguely marked?” “I did,” said Wimsey, “and I examined it hard with this little fellow, but I could make nothing of it except that something or other had rested on the sill.” He drew out his monocle and handed it to Parker.
Not a hair on his head is ruffled—the hair has been cut so recently that there are quite a number of little short hairs stuck on his neck and the sides of the bath—and he has shaved so recently that there is a line of dried soap on his cheek—” “Wimsey!” “Wait a minute—and _dried soap in his mouth_.” Bunter got up and appeared suddenly at the detective’s elbow, the respectful man-servant all over.
Parker turned them over once or twice in his fingers, looked at them close to the light, examined them with a lens, handed them to the impassible Bunter, and said: “Do you mean to tell me, Wimsey, that any man alive would”—he laughed harshly—“shave off his beard with his mouth open, and then go and get killed with his mouth full of hairs? You’re mad.” “I don’t tell you so,” said Wimsey.
Quotes with WIMSEY (3)
Don't be so damned discouraging," said Wimsey. "I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business. Anybody would think you had no confidence in me.""People have been wrongly condemned before now.""Exactly; simply because I wasn't there.""I never thought of that.
She suddenly saw Wimsey in a new light. She knew him to be intelligent, clean, courteous, wealthy, well-read, amusing and enamored, but he had not so far produced in her that crushing sense of inferiority which leads to prostration and hero-worship. But she now realized that there was, after all, something godlike about him. He could control a horse.
Parker looked distressed. He had confidence in Wimsey's judgment, and, in spite of his own interior certainty, he felt shaken." My dear man, where's the flaw in [this case]?""There isn't one ... There's nothing wrong about it at all, except that the girl's innocent.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2002–2018).