Crossword-Solution: CUFIC 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The monuments of the Homerites were inscribed with an obsolete and mysterious character; but the Cufic letters, the groundwork of the present alphabet, were invented on the banks of the Euphrates; and the recent invention was taught at Mecca by a stranger who settled in that city after the birth of Mahomet.

For a time he was in command of the freighters Cufic and Runic; then he became skipper of the old Adriatic.

Everything was as the wise old man had said it would be, and the prince, who was skilled in all tongues, read the following Cufic inscription: “O travellers! be it known to you that this column has been set up with its tablet to give true directions about these roads.

When it was the Fourteenth Night, She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that the Kalandar continued his tale thus:—O my lady, the King's daughter hent in hand a knife whereon were inscribed Hebrew characters and described a wide circle in the midst of the palace hall, and therein wrote in Cufic letters mysterious names and talismans; and she uttered words and muttered charms, some of which we understood and others we understood not.

Clinton is no more guilty of murder than you are, and I have been led to suppose that you are rather too 'pious' to attempt the role of Marguerite de Brinvillers or Joanna of Hainault! Cufic lore has turned your brain; 'too much learning hath made thee mad.'" "No, sir, it is no hallucination; there can be no mistake; it is a horrible, awful fact, which I witnessed, which is burned on my memory, and which will haunt my brain as long as I live.