Crossword-Solution: HOLME 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Holme, the lumberman, is fired with a desire to throw away his excellent worldly prospects and go down and save souls on the East Side.

Thither rode Cormac from the holme, to see his kinsman, and told him of the fight, at which he was but ill pleased.

Said Thorkel, “I bid thee to the holmgang at Orrestholm beside Tjaldanes (Tentness).” “That ye will think hardly worth while,” said Bersi, “such a champion as you are; and yet I undertake for to come.” So they came to the holme and fell to the holmgang.

Holme’s “Dorothy Q.” Opening on the council-chamber is a large billiard-room; the billiard-table is gone, but an ancient spinnet, with the prim air of an ancient maiden lady, and of a wheezy voice, is there; and in one corner stands a claw-footed buffet, near which the imaginative nostril may still detect a faint and tantalizing odor of colonial punch.

The laurell, meed of mightie conquerours And poets sage; the firre that weepeth still; The willow, worne of forlorn paramours; The eugh, obedient to the benders will; The birch for shaftes; the sallow for the mill; The mirrhe sweete-bleeding in the bitter wound; The warlike beech; the ash for nothing ill; The fruitfull olive; and the platane round; The carver holme; the maple seeldom inward sound.