Crossword-Solution: PLUCKERS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Rossetti: 'Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough, A-top on the topmost twig,--which the pluckers forgot, somehow,-- Forgot it not, nay, but got it not, for none could get it till now.' The papyrus was of great length, and contained the poems of Sappho in a cursive literary handwriting of the third century--the real poems, lost to the world for over eight hundred years.

Nothing can look more beautiful or more gratifying to the eye of the owner than a tract of tea, pruned level as a table and topped with new fresh young leaf-shoots, four to eight inches high, in full flush, ready for the pluckers' nimble fingers.

Your nose-borers, feet-swathers, tooth-stainers, eyebrow-pluckers would all want bread should their neighbors want vanity.

The pluckers and scorchers of the feathered fowl occupied the shops between the Stocks' Market (now the Mansion House) and the Great Conduit.

Twice only has she been approached; in the first instance by Horace, in the second by Swinburne, and though it be admitted, as is customary among scholars, that Horace is the most correct of the Latin poets, as Swinburne is the most faultless of our day, Sappho sits and sings above them atop, like her own perfect simile of a bride: Like the sweet apple which reddens atop on the topmost bough, Atop on the topmost twig which the pluckers forgot somehow.