Crossword-Solution: MOIRA 5 letters, 93 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Not true! Moira, to whose edicts even mighty Zeus must acquiesce, had long before Olympus' birth assigned duties.

The new Governor-General, Lord Moira, afterwards Marquis of Hastings, proved to be the most enlightened and powerful friend the mission had had.

Under such circumstances we cannot help exclaiming, in the words of one of the most amiable of Homer’s heroes, “Nun tis enieies Patroklios deilio Mnisastho pasin gar epistato meilichos einai Zoos eun’ nun d’ au Thanatos kai Moira kichanei.” We have no difficulty in admitting that during the ten or twelve years which followed the appearance of the Vindicae Gallicae, the opinions of Sir James Mackintosh underwent some change.

The other grand forest trees whose native names we learned, were the Moira-tinga (the White or King-tree), probably the same as, or allied to, the Mora Excelsa, which Sir Robert Schomburgh discovered in British Guiana; the Samauma (Eriodendron Samauma) and the Massaranduba, or Cow-tree.

One with shaggy eyebrows and a bristly beard, the hirsute ringleader of the rascals, was, it appears, called Charles James Fox; another miscreant, with a blotched countenance, was a certain Sheridan; other imps were hight Erskine, Norfolk (Jockey of), Moira, Henry Petty.