Crossword-Solution: HAVINGS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

But when he was hard on forty years old, he came across a daughter of a certain lord, whom he had vanquished, and his eyes bewrayed him into longing, so that he gave back to the said lord the havings he had conquered of him that he might lay the maiden in his kingly bed.

They said that Cormac had taught this song to one called Eylaug, a kinswoman of his; and these were the words:-- (63) “I wish an old witch that I know of, So wealthy and proud of her havings, Were turned to a steed in the stable --Called Steingerd--and I were the rider! I'd bit her, and bridle, and saddle, I'd back her and drive her and tame her; So many she owns for her masters, But mine she will never become!” Then Steingerd grew exceedingly angry, so that she would not so much as hear Cormac named.

Since I had my office, I have kept you next my heart, have not alone Employed you where high profits might come home, But pared my present havings to bestow My bounties upon you.

What avails it to fight with the eternal laws of mind, which adjust the relation of all persons to each other by the mathematical measure of their havings and beings? Gertrude is enamored of Guy; how high, how aristocratic, how Roman his mien and manners! to live with him were life indeed, and no purchase is too great; and heaven and earth are moved to that end.

The belly is a craving thing; and these things, saith the text, were placed over against the belly, to teach that they should not humour, but put check unto the havings and cravings of the belly; or to show that they need not do it, for that he that calls to his work will himself provide for the belly.