Crossword-Solution: PALESTINE 9 letters, 49 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Next came one Who mourn’d in earnest, when the Captive Ark Maim’d his brute Image, head and hands lopt off In his own Temple, on the grunsel edge, Where he fell flat, and sham’d his Worshipers: _Dagon_ his Name, Sea Monster, upward Man And downward Fish: yet had his Temple high Rear’d in _Azotus_, dreaded through the Coast Of _Palestine_, in _Gath_ and _Ascalon_, And _Accaron_ and _Gaza’s_ frontier bounds.

Some netters put loaded phrases like `KGB', `Uzi', `nuclear materials', `Palestine', `cocaine', and `assassination' in their {sig block}s in a (probably futile) attempt to confuse and overload the creature.

The meetings were conducted in the Sunday-School room, where there were wooden chairs instead of pews; an old map of Palestine hung on the wall, and the bracket lamps gave out only a dim light.

Now we arrive at Richard I., called Richard of the Lion-heart because he was a brave fighter and was never so contented as when he was leading crusades in Palestine and neglecting his affairs at home.

High deeds achieved of knightly fame, From Palestine the champion came; The cross upon his shoulders borne, Battle and blast had dimm’d and torn.