Crossword-Solution: FOIST 5 letters, 44 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The part had been thrust on me one day, when Edward proposed to foist the House of Lords on our small Republic.

Simon Magus, it was clear to their impartial minds that he was trying by a trick to foist a bastard--perhaps his own--on the wrong parish.

But he braced himself for the effort and began: "When th' skoit here says she wants the big boob punched I says to m'self, foist of all: 'Is it right or is it wrong?' Oncet youse got that reform high sign put onto youse, youse can't be too careful.

His death was the signal for empirics and visionaries to foist on the public book after book on occult philosophy, written in his name--of which you may see ten folios--not more than a quarter, I believe, genuine.

Alack! For that we seem indeed To have slipped the world’s great leaping-time, and come Upon thy pinched and dozing days: these weeds, These corporal leavings, thou not cast’st us new, Fresh from thy craftship, like the lilies’ coats, But foist’st us off With hasty tarnished piecings negligent, Snippets and waste From old ancestral wearings, That have seen sorrier usage; remainder-flesh After our father’s surfeits; nay with chinks, Some of us, that if speech may have free leave Our souls go out at elbows.