Crossword-Solution: DAV 3 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

CHAPTER XXXIX Several tens of thousands of the slain lay in diverse postures and various uniforms on the fields and meadows belonging to the Davýdov family and to the crown serfs—those fields and meadows where for hundreds of years the peasants of Borodinó, Górki, Shevárdino, and Semënovsk had reaped their harvests and pastured their cattle.

The officials thus removed had taken upon themselves from the start to pronounce the Reconstruction acts unconstitutional, and to advise such a course of obstruction that I found it necessary at an early dav to replace them by men in sympathy with the law, in order to make plain my determination to have its provisions enforced.

Bagley looked him over, and, with evident approval of his clothes, remarked: “You seem to've made a better thing of it than Dav has.” “I make a living,” said Larcher, curtly, with a glance at Davenport, who showed no feeling whatever.

Bagley himself stared hard at Larcher, then glanced at Davenport, and finally blurted out a laugh, and said: “So Dav has been giving you his fairy tale? I thought he'd dropped it as a played-out chestnut.

Old Reliable Dav, that's what I call him; Old Reliable Dav, and I'd trust him with every dollar I've got in the world.” He finished with a clap of good fellowship on Davenport's shoulder, and then fell upon the remainder of his chop and potato with a concentration of interest that put an end to the dispute.