Crossword-Solution: ALW 3 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Now is Little John the sheriff's man, He give us well to speed, But alw-ay thought Little John To quite him well his meed.

Then Iblis took the bowl and signed to Tohfah to sing: and she said, "To hear is to obey!" So she hent the lute in hand and tuning it, sang these couplets, "Drink wine, O ye lovers, I rede you alwŕy, * And praise his worth who loves night and day; 'Mid the myrtle, narcissus and lavender, * And the scented herbs that bedeck the tray." So Iblis the Damned drank and said, "Brava, O desire of hearts! But thou owest me still another aria." Then he filled the cup and signed to her to sing.

Then he brought out ink-case[FN#381] and paper and wrote these couplets: I cry (and mine's a frame that pines alwŕy), * A mind which fires of passion e'er waylay; And eyeballs never tasting sweets of sleep; * Yet Fortune spare its cause I ever pray! While from world-perfidy and parting I * Like Bishram with Hind,[FN#382] that well-loved may;-- Yea, grown a bye-word 'mid the folk but aye * Spend life unwinning wish or night or day.

There is a good instance of the manner in which all history began, in Alwákidis’ Arabian Chronicle: “I was informed by _Ahmed Almatin Aljorhami_, who had it from _Rephâa Ebn Kais Alámiri_, who had it from _Saiph Ebn Fabalah Alchâtquarmi_, who had it from _Thabet Ebn Alkamah_, who said he was present at the action.” These fathers of history were not anxious to preserve, but to learn the fact; and hence it was not forgotten.

Their names are 'Alwßn, 'Imrßn, Suway'id, and Sa'id; and the list of nineteen tribes, which I gave in "The Gold-Mines of Midian," is confined to the descendants of the third brother.