Crossword-Solution: FORDS 5 letters, 46 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

There was a goodly fauburg outside the gate, and therein were fair houses, not a few, with gardens and orchards about them; and when these were past he rode through very excellent meadows lying along the water, which he crossed thrice, once by a goodly stone bridge and twice by fords; for the road was straight, and the river wound about much.

And you, great sculptor--so, you gave A score of years to Art, her slave, And that’s your Venus, whence we turn To yonder girl that fords the burn! You acquiesce, and shall I repine? What, man of music, you grown gray With notes and nothing else to say, Is this your sole praise from a friend, “Greatly his opera’s strains intend, But in music we know how fashions end!” I gave my youth; but we ride, in fine.

Thrice thirty thousand men were we to force the Jumna fords -- The hawk-winged horse of Damajee, mailed squadrons of the Bhao, Stark levies of the southern hills, the Deccan's sharpest swords, And he the harlot's traitor son the goatherd Mulhar Rao! Thrice thirty thousand men were we before the mists had cleared, The low white mists of morning heard the war-conch scream and bray; We called upon Bhowani and we gripped them by the beard, We rolled upon them like a flood and washed their ranks away.

They reached the river and as Billy knew not where the fords lay he plunged in at the point at which the water first barred their progress and dragging the girl after him, plowed bull-like for the opposite shore.

She said: "It is impossible for either man or horse to cross the river." "There must be fords," said Gest; "do not be afraid." "First carry the maiden over," she said; "she is lighter." "I don't want to make two journeys of it," said he; "I will carry you in my arms." She crossed herself and said: "That is impossible; what will you do with the girl?" "I will find a way," he said, taking them both up and setting the girl on her mother's knee as he bore them both on his left arm, keeping his right arm free.