Crossword-Solution: MISTI 5 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

OLD JUDAS THE LITTLE CASK BOITELLE A WIDOW THE ENGLISHMEN OF ETRETAT MAGNETISM A FATHERS CONFESSION A MOTHER OF MONSTERS AN UNCOMFORTABLE BED A PORTRAIT THE DRUNKARD THE WARDROBE THE MOUNTAIN POOL A CREMATION MISTI MADAME HERMET THE MAGIC COUCH OLD JUDAS This entire stretch of country was amazing; it was characterized by a grandeur that was almost religious, and yet it had an air of sinister desolation.

Sometimes I spent them with her lounging on the divan with my forehead on one of her knees; while on the other lay an enormous black cat called “Misti,” whom she adored.

Emma, almost fainting with emotion, sat down on a chair and exclaimed: “Oh, dear, look at that cat; how like it is to Misti.” And she explained to the old woman that she had a cat “exactly like that, exactly like that!” The old woman replied gravely: “If you are in love with a man, you must not keep it.” Emma, suddenly filled with fear, asked: “Why not?” The old woman sat down familiarly beside her and took her hand.

Three hours later the gleam of an electric searchlight flickered down over the huge black cone of the Misti, and by dawn the next morning one of Her Majesty's cruisers--most appropriately named _Astræa_--attached to the Pacific Squadron then _en route_ from Lima to Valparaiso, steamed out westward from Mollendo and found the long, shining hull of the _Astronef_ waiting quietly on the unrippled rollers of the Pacific, and Lord and Lady Redgrave having breakfast in the deck-chamber.

The great peaks of the Andes likewise suffer, such as Volcan Misti at Arequipa, nearly 20,000 feet above the sea, but from its base only 12,000 feet.