Crossword-Solution: AKRA 4 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Hearing that the procession with the condemned might be met with somewhere near the great white towers left by Herod, the three friends rode thither, passing round southeast of Akra.

Forests of fine trees clothe its flanks, but the lofty summit towers high above them, a bare mass of rock, known at the present day as Jebel-el-Akra, or “the Bald Mountain.” It is formed mainly of the same cretaceous limestone as the other mountains of these parts, and like them has a rounded summit; but rocks of igneous origin enter into its geological structure; and in its vegetation it more resembles the mountain ranges of Taurus and Amanus than those of southern Syria and Palestine.

Golden Helm (1903) On the Threshold and Other Plays (1907) Stonefolds (1907) Web of Life (1908) Akra the Slave (1910) Daily Bread (1910) Womenkind (1912) Fires (1912) Thorough-fares (1914) Borderlands (1914) Battle (1915) Friends (1916) Livelihood (1917) GOLDING, LOUIS.

Graece enim fulmen [Greek: keraunos] ceraunos dicitur, et acra [Greek: akra] sumitas'; and a great many Greek and Hebrew words are given transliterated into Latin, ballein, fagein, Ennosigaeus.

Cut off from its neighbor by ancient walls were Ophlas, overlooking Tophet and under the shadow of the Temple; Mount Zion which the Lord had established, Akra of the valley, Moriah, the Holy Hill, and Coenopolis or Bezetha which Agrippa I had walled.