Crossword-Solution: MOOCHER 7 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The giant was plunged in gloomy abstraction, and Vetch and the Moocher interchanged a significant glance.

The mutineers, headed by Gabbett, Vetch, and the Moocher, were nearest to the door; the timid--boys, old men, innocent poor wretches condemned on circumstantial evidence, or rustics condemned to be turned into thieves for pulling a turnip--were at the farther end, huddling together in alarm; and the prudent--that is to say, all the rest, ready to fight or fly, advance or retreat, assist the authorities or their companions, as the fortune of the day might direct--occupied the middle space.

Gabbett tore a cutlass from a soldier, shook his huge head, and calling on the Moocher to follow, bounded up the ladder, desperately determined to brave the fire of the watch.

The Moocher, close at the giant's heels, flung himself upon the nearest soldier, and grasping his wrist, struggled for the cutlass.

The Moocher, spattered with the blood and brains of his unfortunate comrade, had already set his foot upon the lowest step of the ladder, when the cutlass was dashed from his hand by a blow from a clubbed firelock, and he was dragged roughly backwards.