Crossword-Solution: CLINCHES 8 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

Lamennais, who afterward became so vexatious a thorn in the side of the Church, insisted, at this earlier period, that "man can no more think without words than see without light." And then, by that sort of mystical play upon words so well known in the higher ranges of theologic reasoning, he clinches his argument by saying, "The Word is truly and in every sense 'the light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.'" But even such champions as these could not stay the progress of thought.

Joe was too busy living through the storm he had already caused, blocking, covering up, and ducking into the safety and respite of the clinches.

Genevieve had noticed, with a slight touch of amusement, the curious way in which Joe snuggled his body in against Ponta's in the clinches; but she had not realized why, until, in one such clinch, before the snuggling in could be effected, Ponta's fist whipped straight up in the air from under, and missed Joe's chin by a hair's-breadth.

Genevieve realized that in the clinches he was not being beaten--why, then, did not the referee let him hold on? It was cruel.

The pillars set up by Solomon in front of his temple were obviously from their names--Jachin and Boaz (1)--meant to be emblems of this kind; and the fact that they were crowned with pomegranates--the universally accepted symbol of the female--confirms and clinches this interpretation.