Crossword-Solution: DAZZLERS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 27

There is a beautiful headstone put in a little churchyard about two and a half miles from Barnet in memory of the Brinkly family, and it is carefully looked after by members of the family; one of the Lees has a tombstone erected to his memory in Hanwell Cemetery; and such silly nonsense is put out by the cunning, crafty Gipsies as ‘dazzlers,’ to enable them more readily to practise the art of lying and deception upon their gullible listeners.

Why (the old men say), why, this Japhra's Gentleman, mark me, he was one of the quick-ones--one of the movers, one of the swift-boys, one of the dazzlers, one of the few! He come in _tic-tac! tic-tac! tic-tac!_--quicker'n my old jaws can say it: _Left-right! left-right! left-right!_--like his two fists was a postman's knock.

First along, he prop this quick-boy off, an' prop him off, an' prop him off; an' catch him fair and rattle him, an' smash him one and stagger him, an' side-step an' shake him up; but still he come, and still he come, and still he come; _tic-tac! tic-tac! tic-tac!_ ah, he was one of the quick-ones, one of the dazzlers, one of the steel-boys.

Malone," asked the barkeeper, "ye don't want no tickets for the Lady Dazzlers' Coterie Mask and Civic Ball, to-night, do ye? It's goin' to be the most high-toned blow-out they ever had." "I'm not goin' to balls any more," Malone answered, "I'm too old now." Buttoning his thin overcoat tightly across the chest, he held out his hand to Tom, to the barkeeper's great surprise.

Blest land, in whose dark hour Arise to loftiest power No dazzlers of the sword to play the tyrant’s part, But patriot-soldiers, true and pure and high of heart! Of such our chief of all; And he who broke the wall Of civil strife in twain, no more to build or mend; And he who hath this day made Death his faithful friend.