Crossword-Solution: CLAIMERS 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

When the ruins began to be removed, great about the dead was the concourse of the living; frequent the kisses and embraces of tenderness and sorrow: and even frequent the contention about the propriety of the dead; where the features distorted by death or bruises, or where parity of age or resemblance of person, had confounded the slain, and led into mistakes their several claimers.

Whatever any company of good men thinks or believes, is to be approached with respect; but nothing claimed or taught, be the claimers or the teachers who they may, must come between the soul and the spirit of the father, who is himself the teacher of his children.

Illinois county was omitted from the western counties enumerated in “An act for adjusting and settling the titles of claimers to unpatented lands under the present and former government, previous to the establishment of the commonwealth’s land office.” Settlers northwest of the Ohio were warned to remove.

Probably it is true—one seems to divine a reason for it—that idealists, claimers of the absolute, have commonly found their fellow men a disappointment.

These were otherwise called Assassins; otherwise Batinites in the narrower sense—in the broader that term meant only those who found under the letter of the Qur’an a hidden, esoteric meaning; otherwise Ta‘limites or claimers of a _ta‘lim_, a secret teaching by a divinely instructed Imam, and with them we shall have much to do later.