Crossword-Solution: NAOMI 5 letters, 269 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Even her ambiguities and espieglerie were but media of the same manifestation; acted charades, embodying the words of her prototype, the tender and susceptible daughter-in-law of Naomi: “Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid.” She was syringing the plants one wet day in the greenhouse.

Then there's Pharaoh, and Ishmael, and Jonadab, for the boys, and Leah and Naomi, for the girls; but my name beats all.

There were Sunday evening prayer-meetings, too, held at “early candlelight,” when Waitstill and Lucy Morrill would make a duet of “By cool Siloam's Shady Rill,” or the favorite “Naomi,” and the two fresh young voices, rising and falling in the tender thirds of the old tunes, melted all hearts to new willingness of sacrifice.

Among other books of that time I only recall a kind of Sunday novel, "Naomi; or, The Last Days of Jerusalem." Who, indeed, could forget the battering-rams, and the man who cried on the battlements, "Woe, woe to myself and to Jerusalem!" I seem to hear him again when boys break the hum of London with yells of the latest "disaster." We left England in a year, went back to Scotland, and awoke, as it were, to know the glories of our birth.

And Uncle John looked at me, and I looked at him; and, though he did not say it, I knew he was _feeling_ ‘Dear Bella,’ and I knew, somewhere in his seeing of me, was all his vision of the Princess Naomi.