Crossword-Solution: BATTLEAX 8 letters, 11 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

There was Captain Battleax seated there, beautiful with a cocked-hat, and an epaulet, and gold braid.

But, on the whole, we are a prosperous and well-satisfied people." "We are quite satisfied now, Captain Battleax," said my wife.

After dinner Captain Battleax simply proposed my health, paying to me many unmeaning compliments, in which, however, I observed that no reference was made to the special doings of my presidency; and he ended by saying, that though he had, as a matter of courtesy, and with the greatest possible alacrity, proposed my health, he would not call upon me for any reply.

Sir Ferdinando Brown is to me--simply Sir Ferdinando Brown." "Sir Ferdinando has lately been our British Governor in Ashantee, where he has, as I may truly say, 'bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.' He has now been sent here on this delicate mission, and to no one could it be intrusted by whom it would be performed with more scrupulous honour." This was simply the opinion of Captain Battleax, and expressed in the presence of the gentleman himself whom he so lauded.

But the dread of it is to the generality much more powerful than the fact of its possession." "You may be quite sure it's there," said Captain Battleax, "and that I can so use it as to half obliterate your town within two minutes of my return on board." "You propose to kidnap me," I said.