Crossword-Solution: BACKSET 7 letters, 43 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

And as Bumpus had before hand written down all sorts of phrases used long ago on board the ships that sailed the seas in such white-winged flocks before the advent of steam gave them such a backset, he read these all out to his mates; and after that, whenever they could think of the nautical name for anything they insisted on using it, because, as Giraffe declared, it gave such a realistic effect to things.

Daughter said nothing to us of her Grievances, nor we to her...."[267] The lady, however, while she might control her tongue, could not control her pen, and just when harmony was on the point of being restored, a letter from her gave the affair a most serious backset.

Thus he wrote about a week after the Chicago convention: "So far as I can learn, the nominations start well everywhere; and, if they get no backset, it would seem as if they are going through." Again, on July 4: "Long before this you have learned who was nominated at Chicago.

Turner's theory that most of what is typical and unique in American institutions and ideals owes its existence to the backset of the frontier life found a living exemplar in the man who stood before me on that May morning.

The passing of each day under the new conditions which Zura's coming had brought about marked for both of us either a decided growth or a complete backset.