Crossword-Solution: MOT 3 letters, 154 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

And to-night, having delivered himself of his _bon mot_, he had left Marguerite surrounded by a crowd of admirers of all ages, all anxious and willing to help her to forget that somewhere in the spacious reception-rooms, there was a long, lazy being who had been fool enough to suppose that the cleverest woman in Europe would settle down to the prosaic bonds of English matrimony.

And then as the duchess went on relating a _mot_ with which her mother had snubbed the great Napoleon, it occurred to Newman that her evasion of a chapter of French history more interesting to himself might possibly be the result of an extreme consideration for his feelings.

But herte myn, of your benignitee, 1285 So thenketh, though that I unworthy be, Yet mot I nede amenden in som wyse, Right thourgh the vertu of your heyghe servyse.

Upon the hond to were a Schoo And sette upon the fot a Glove Acordeth noght to the behove Of resonable mannes us: If men behielden the vertus 360 That Crist in Erthe taghte here, Thei scholden noght in such manere, Among hem that ben holden wise, The Papacie so desguise Upon diverse eleccioun, Which stant after thaffeccioun Of sondry londes al aboute: Bot whan god wole, it schal were oute, For trowthe mot stonde ate laste.

The most amusing blunder, however, in the whole book is contained in the following charmingly nave piece of etymology _ propos_ of the Geological and Polytechnic Society of the West Riding of Yorkshire: ``On sait qu'en Anglais le mot _Ride_ se traduit par voyage cheval ou en voiture; on pourrait peut-tre penser, ds le d hippique.