Crossword-Solution: BATTE 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

And once that she had made him very angry by upsetting the ink over a mass of business papers, and he had slapped her (could he ever forgive himself?)--she had cried, through her sobs of astonishment and pain:--"To laimin moin?--to batte moin!" (Thou lovest me?--thou beatest me!) Next month she would have been five years old.

Multis nominibus tibi gratias agere debeo, mi Batte, qui vigilias meas, hoc est opes, miseris, cum mature, quod non soles, tum optima fide, ut consuesti facere; denique per tabellionem non modo diligentem verum etiam facundum, ita ut mihi non illius labori modo 5 verum etiam orationi fuerit referenda merces.

Que la Fortune ne t'abatte Combien qu'elle t'assaille et batte; Mais comme eux fais exactement, Ne me sers jamais autrement.

Souffrez au moins que je dÈfie Ce Malebouche qui m'Èpie, Avant d'aller le dÈcevant, Ou que lui dise que ce vent Par lui soulevÈ, qu'il l'abatte, Ou qu'il convient que je le batte; Ou s'amende ‡ moi, s'il lui plaÓt, Et l'amende pour moi serait, Ou s'il ne veut, que je m'en plaigne Au juge qui l'amende prenne.

Old Charon, in his boat, "with eyes of brass, who beats the delaying souls with uplifted oar," is taken directly from Dante:— Caron demonio con occhi di bragia Loro accenando, tutte le raccoglie, Batte col remo qualunque si adagia.