Crossword-Solution: MAUD 4 letters, 69 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The Princess slid her hand down Maud's neck to quiet her prancing, and leaned in the saddle, her face full of interest.

Presently the boy took a ball from his tunic, and, pointing at a little bush near them, said, “Stand you there, Lady Maud, by yonder bush.

LIX Sophia by Adige’s flowery bank him bore, Sophia the fair, spouse to Bertoldo great, Fit mother for that pearl, and before The tender imp was weaned from the teat, The Princess Maud him took, in Virtue’s lore She brought him up fit for each worthy feat, Till of these wares the golden trump he hears, That soundeth glory, fame, praise in his ears.

Tennyson by preference: 'Maud,' or 'Idylls of the King'--poetry of the sound Victorian days; there is none later.

Maud explained: "This is the swellest suite in the house parlor, bedroom, bath." She flung open the door, disclosing a sitting-room in disorder with two young men partly dressed, seated at a small table on which were bottles, siphons, matches, remains of sandwiches, boxes of cigarettes--a chaotic jumble of implements to dissipation giving forth a powerful, stale odor.