Crossword-Solution: BESSES 6 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Only Private Penton Gray of the --th! Well, ain't that being a gentleman? Don't our chaps all carry rifles? They are not like the line regiments with their common Brown Besses.

The two Besses may be whiter than their progenitors, and of less pugnacious propensities!" "Thy argument, good lieutenant," cried Sir John, "hath the goodly property of proving two things:--In the first place, it proves that the two Besses may have white skins; and, secondly, that thou mayest have a white liver; for, if courage hath no descent but in cocks, thou canst not boast of having the heart of the first Robert!" "Hold! thou art too severe," cried Rothsay, "and not logical.

But we have wandered from the two Besses, whom it now behoves us to take up, and treat with more respect.

Half of them carried Brown Besses, blunderbusses, or old horse-pistols, and three or four were girt with ancient swords lugged for the purpose from bacon-rack or oak chest.

The "_Besses o' th' Barn_" were at the crest of their fame, but the "_Black Dike_" ran them close, and not far behind came "_Wyke Temperance_" and "_Meltham Mills_"; and had these been, not Bands, but football teams, local rivalry could not have run higher.