Crossword-Solution: POLKS 5 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The neighborhood was the home of the Polks and the Pillows and other people of national reputation, whose ample estates lay on the roads diverging from the town.

The Jack Belmonts, the Yorbas, the Polks, and others of the first aristocracy to follow the Spanish, made Nob Hill fashionable before a new class of millionaires sprang up in a night, and indulged its fresh young fancy with monstrous wooden structures holding a large portion of converted capital.

But I think there has been some little change from Washington down through the Tylers and the Polks to the present administration.

But amid all these evidences of desolation, the Cossack was seen here, there, everywhere--singly--in twos and threes--in pickets--in patrols--in grand guards--in polks--trotting, walking, or galloping, mounted high on his quaint saddle over his shaggy, long-tailed pony, flourishing with one hand his cruel whip, while with the other he guided the docile animal, above which he towered like a giant, his dirty grey coat fluttering in the breeze and his lance-point shining brightly in the sun.

The early dress was similar to that of the Turks, and the regiments, or _polks_, were distinguished from each other by the red, green, yellow, or blue color of their uniforms.