Crossword-Solution: FLOATER 7 letters, 26 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

And here I swear by this Cross I wear, I heard that "floater" say: "I am the man from whom you ran, the man you sought to slay.

From the beginning of his aerial experiments in his own schoolroom, he had not opened his lips, knowing somehow that one of the requirements for air floating is perfect silence on the part of the floater; but, finally, irritated beyond measure by Miss Spence's clamorous insistence, he was unable to restrain an indignant rebuke and immediately came to earth with a frightful bump.

Clement Danes are ever used by children playing 'Oranges and lemons.'" "Admit it was a floater on your part, and I'll let you play a round with me." "I--er--confess, upon consideration, that the allusion--" "That'll do," she said, laughing.

Thus the spear becomes 'the slaughter-shaft'; fighting 'hand-play'; the sword 'the leavings of the hammer' (or 'of the anvil'); and a ship 'the foamy-necked floater.' These kennings add much imaginative suggestiveness to the otherwise over-terse style, and often contribute to the grim irony which is another outstanding trait.

Then all of a sudden the blue and yellow floater went under and little Hepzebiah caught a sunfish, too.