Crossword-Solution: BURLIER 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Here delicate snow-stars, out of the cloud, Come floating downward in airy play, Like spangles dropped from the glistening crowd That whiten by night the milky way; There broader and burlier masses fall; The sullen water buries them all-- Flake after flake-- All drowned in the dark and silent lake.

Master Porges was a pursy man, but there were burlier than he; a couple of lean stablemen made good practice with the stirrup-leathers.

The man had neither seen nor heard me, but at the last moment I had recognised him as the burlier of the two blockheads who had shadowed Raffles three days before.

The ancients felt the same fastidiousness; and among the Romans, those who were called to the equestrian order, having low and vulgar _names_, were new named on the occasion, lest the former one should disgrace the dignity.[21] When _Burlier_, a French wit, was chosen for the preceptor of Colbert's son, he felt his _name_ was so uncongenial to his new profession, that he assumed the more splendid one of _D'Aucour_, by which he is now known.

Here delicate snow stars, out of the cloud, Come floating downward in airy play, Like spangles dropped from the glistening crowd That whiten by night the Milky Way; There broader and burlier masses fall; The sullen water buries them all,-- Flake after flake,-- All drowned in the dark and silent lake.