Crossword-Solution: MOTTS 5 letters, 35 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Same grass, same lay of land, same old Whipperwill Creek skallyhootin' in and out of them motts of timber.

The timber was huddling into little, dense green motts at rare distances before the inundation of the downright, vert prairies.

Skeleton cried with a breathless voice, "Clear the door! We are going out--up on the boulevard." "Yes, yes!" cried the dense crowd at the windows, "a _galop_ to the Barrière Saint Jacques!" "It will soon be time for them to shorten the two motts!" "The executioner throws a double ace; it is _low!_" "Accompanied by the French horn!" "We will dance the cotillon by the guillotine!" "Go ahead of the women without any head!" cried Tortillard.

They teach us that all other professions must take care of themselves; that God allows anybody to be a doctor, a lawyer, statesman, soldier, or artist; that the Motts and Coopers--the Mansfields and Marshalls--the Wilberforces and Sumners--the Angelos and Raphaels--were never honored by a "call." These chose their professions and won their laurels without the assistance of the Lord.

From the comparative respectability of Cremorne and Motts, and the frankly shady precincts of the "Pie" and the "Blue Posts" down to places considerably worse, London was an enormous gamut of opportunities for "seeing life." Killigrew, as a merchant's son, however well off, could not penetrate to the most sacred precincts--Motts was more or less barred to him; but on the other hand he was in the midst of what was always called the "Bohemian" set--in which were many artists, both the big and the little fry.