Crossword-Solution: MEDALLED 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

All the time, his lights were in every part of the world, guiding the mariner; his firm were consulting engineers to the Indian, the New Zealand, and the Japanese Lighthouse Boards, so that Edinburgh was a world centre for that branch of applied science; in Germany, he had been called “the Nestor of lighthouse illumination”; even in France, where his claims were long denied, he was at last, on the occasion of the late Exposition, recognised and medalled.

Even the magnificent be-medalled porter at the door emerged from the carved teak box where he dwelt and touching his cap asked if he should call a cab.

THE VOICE I dreamed a Voice, of one God-authorised, Cried loudly thro’ the world, ‘Disarm! Disarm!’ And there was consternation in the camps; And men who strutted under braid and lace Beat on their medalled breasts, and wailed, ‘Undone!’ The word was echoed from a thousand hills, And shop and mill, and factory and forge, Where throve the awful industries of death, Hushed into silence.

Another man was with him, a much be-medalled officer, who was somewhat heavy in hand to talk to, and at the station we gave him the slip.” “How can he take you for a fly if you don’t know who he is?” “Well, I dare say he won’t; quite likely he didn’t mean it; but if he did, he can easily find me at the office.

The officer in command, who was as civil as the majority of such be-medalled jackasses, suggested that one single day would be quite sufficient for me to see the sights of Levanto; I could then proceed to Pisa or anywhere else outside his priceless "zone of defence." I pleaded vigorously for more time.