Crossword-Solution: BISS 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

ALLE (1699) 1, 48; | (ÜBERSCHRIFT:) Salomons königs van | Israel und Juda güldne worte von der | ceder biss zum issop GÖTHE 1 37, 295 | W.; AUF ANDERE PERSONEN ÜBERTRAGEN: | weil du (RÜBEZAHL) aber der kräuter | und pflanzen kundig bist, vom ysop an, | der auf der mauer wächst, bis auf die | ceder zu Libanon MUSÄUS VOLKSMÄRCHEN | 1, 34 HEMPEL, VGL.

Verdant Green is there, dressed with elaborate magnificence; but he continues in a state of listless apathy, and is indifferent to the "lively" rattle of the balloon-like Miss Waters, until John the footman (who is suffering from influenza) rouses him into animation by the magic talisman "Bister, Bissis, an' the Biss "Oneywoods;" when he beams through his spectacles in the most benign and satisfied manner.

Guli, with her maid, went to Bristol, to see her former maid, Anne Hersent, who was married to a merchant of that city, whose name was Thomas Biss; and I went to Aylesbury with the children, but not finding the place agreeable to my health, I soon left it, and returning to Chalfont, took a lodging, and was dieted in the house of a friendly man, and after some time went to Bristol to conduct Guli home.

Biss is on brand new ground and will puzzle every reader till the mystery is at last solved by the right man--the mystery of the baffling murders on the Brighton road.

Biss, three miles from Kingston, on the Tennessee River, a mound was opened which was so located as to overlook the river, and at the same time guard the approach from two pieces of projecting wood.