Crossword-Solution: ALK 3 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The seal of Washington was made to bear the Indian word _Alké_--"by and by"--or "in the future." It also was a prophecy.

Thus Medæa, in _Apollonius Rhodius_: [Greek: "Pantê moi phrenes eisin amêchanoi, oude tis alkê Pêmatos."] And the same lady in _Ovid_: "---- Luctata diu, postquam ratione furorem, Vincere non poterat.

Their beauty grows upon us as we read; we catch in one the echo of a single tone, so sweet that it needs no harmony; and again a few stray chords that haunt the ear and fill us with an exquisite dissatisfaction; and yet again a grave and stately measure such as her rebuke to Alkæus-- "Had thy desire been for what was good or noble and had not thy tongue framed some evil speech, shame had not filled thine eyes--" MARY GREY.

The friends of the sick woman prepared the alkàn, a great corn cake baked in the earth, the manufacture of which gave evidence of the antiquity of the process.

Then the lords Of havoc and unrest prepare their storms, And o'er the silent city, vulture forms-- Eris and Enyo, Alké, Ioké, The biter, the sharp-bitten, the mad, the fey-- Hover and light on pinnacle and tower: The gray Erinnyes, watchful for the hour When Haro be the wail.