Crossword-Solution: WINDFALLS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Surprise prizes | 1 answer |
| Unexpected gains | 1 answer |
| Unexpected moments of good fortune | 1 answer |
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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
EMAZCE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with WINDFALLS (5)
Such letters are the windfalls of our profession! For what is more attractive than to have a woman take you for her lay confessor, to whom she comes for advice in trouble? opening her innocent heart for your inspection! My correspondent complains that her days are not sufficiently long, nor is her strength great enough, for the thousand and one duties and obligations imposed upon her.
Yet it was not the great make of the year as yet; before the standard crop came in there accumulated, in abundant times like this, a large superfluity of early apples, and windfalls from the trees of later harvest, which would not keep long.
When “The Atlantic Monthly” was begun, twenty-five years afterwards, and the author was asked to write for it, the recollection of these crude products of his uncombed literary boyhood suggested the thought that it would be a curious experiment to shake the same bough again, and see if the ripe fruit were better or worse than the early windfalls.
And we see these few rising as if by magic into power and affluence, and forming, with the millionaires who have accidentally gained huge riches by the occasional windfalls of our commerce, the governing class.
Pick up some of the windfalls and make a green-apple pie, and I'll be with you in the kitchen myself before long.
Quotes with WINDFALLS (3)
The earth sometimes rewards humans who do good works for the planet. Look out for unexpected windfalls of produce from the earth such as baskets of fruit or vegetables given to you unexpectedly, nature handcrafts, or a bunch of flowers picked from a beloved garden. These are all signs that the gifts not only came from the giver but from Mother Earth herself. - Fairy of the woods
So I got to thinking that perhaps that’s what money is: a crystallization — or, rather, a homogenization — of time and free will into those things we call dollars and pounds and yen and euros. Money multiplies your time. It also expands your agency and broadens the number of things you can do accordingly. Big-time lottery winners haven’t won ten million dollars — they’ve won ten thousand person-years of time to do pretty much anything they want anywhere on Earth. Windfalls ar…
The prospect of living without interference, living in a world where windfalls and misfortunes were never by design, held no terror for him.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, S&S.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2006–2022).