Crossword-Solution: BRITTLER 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

When steel is made very hot, and suddenly immerged in very cold water, and moved about in it, the surface of the steel becomes cooled first, and thus producing a kind of case or arch over the internal part, prevents that internal part from contracting quite so much as it otherwise would do, whence it becomes brittler and harder, like the glass-drops called Prince Rupert's drops, which are made by dropping melted glass into cold water.

You're always the first man down at the table and the last to leave it." "You needn't twit me on my appetite, Bart Brittler!" exclaimed the other, angrily.

Brittler would soon be returning, driving the sheep ahead of him; then they would have two lawless men to contend with, instead of one, unless they chose to be quiet and tamely allow the spoilers to make off with their booty.

What should they do next? "Hi! Hi! Scat, you brutes! Get a move on!" Brittler's voice shattered the midnight stillness as he came, driving the sheep before him.

But the feet receded toward the cabin, and he had no difficulty in recognizing the tones of Dolph and Brittler.