Crossword-Solution: OPTIMIST 8 letters, 46 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

The cap-and-bells border was significant of the shams by which the optimist sought to delude himself into the view that life was a desirable thing.

Tuckerman makes a book of essays on various subjects, and calls it _The Optimist_; and then devotes several pages of preface to an argument, lexicon in hand, proving that the applicability of the term optimist is `obvious.' An editor, at intervals of leisure, indulges his true poetic taste for the pleasure of his friends, or the entertainment of an occasional audience.

Under an assumed name I have wormed myself into its service for revenge; and as there is a heaven above us, I will have its heart's blood!" An Optimist Two Frogs in the belly of a snake were considering their altered circumstances.

When I look in the glass I see that every line in my face means pessimism; but in spite of my face--that is my experience--I remain an optimist.

But, whatever else he may be, a pessimist is depressing, and it was, therefore, a great pleasure to me to have a friend who was an out-and-out optimist.