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

Ils sont d'ailleurs sans baionettes pour repondre a celles de l'ennemi: il ne leur reste qu'a fuir,--et me voila battu sans ressource.

Remembering her personal dislike of the Emperor, and forgetting that she was a Frenchwoman, he said to her, on his return to Paris, "_Je l'ai bien battu_." The next time he called he was not admitted.

Old and young are comparative terms: for be it known that the son is "agé de soixante ans." Over his door you read an ancient inscription, thus: "_Battu, percé, lié, Je veux changer de main_." This implies either (like Aladdin's old lamps for new) that he wishes to give new books in exchange for old ones, or that he can smarten up old ones by binding, or otherwise, and give them a renovated appearance.

PUNCH,--I enclose a cut from _Le Radical_, one of the leading Mauritius papers, and on behalf of the lovers of our national game in the island venture to ask for information regarding the last match recorded:-- "Londres, 14 mai, 4 hres P.M.--Mary-le-bone a battu Nottingham par 5 wickets; Lancashire a battu Leichester; Sussex a battu Warrick.

Sans défense contre les jalousies qu'avaient suscitées ses triomphes d'écolier, et qui, du moment qu'elles pouvaient être assouvies, devenaient de véritables haines, il fut honni par les uns, battu par les autres, maltraité par tous; chacun avait pour lui son injure favorite.