Crossword-Solution: NODUS 5 letters, 14 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

The motto of the paper was from Horace: ``Est modus in rebus,'' and the editor, wishing to let his friends at a distance know that things were not going on quite well between him and his proprietors, printed this motto as,-- ``Est nodus in rebus.'' This was continued for three weeks before it was discovered and corrected by the persons concerned.

And now rose the _culmen_ of Gibbie’s day! its cycle, rounded through regions of banishment, returned to its nodus of bliss.

And in the midst of all is placed man, nodus et vinculum mundi, the bond or copula of the world, and the "interpreter of nature": that famous expression of Bacon's really belongs to Pico.

That crowd which came in and stopped the fight ought to be considered like one of those divine clouds which the gods send in Homer: “Apollo shrouds The godlike Trojan in a veil of clouds.” It is the best way of getting the godlike Trojan out of the scrape, don't you see? The nodus is cut; Tom is out of chancery; the Benicia Boy not a bit the worse, nay, better than if he had beaten the little man.

The former is steady and unshaken, where the 'nodus' is 'dignus vindice'; the latter is oftener improperly than properly exerted, but always brutally.