Crossword-Solution: POPULATE 8 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

There was no stint, either, of maple beer and rum and “Black Betty,” and toasts to the bride and groom amidst gusts of laughter “that they might populate Kaintuckee.” And Polly Ann would have it that I should sit by her side under the maple.

With a loud and mighty sound, They exclaim: ‘The world we’ve found.’ To a mountain nigh they drew, And when there themselves they view, Bound they swiftly on the shore, And their fervent thanks outpour, Lowly kneeling to their God; Then their way a couple trod, Man and woman, hand in hand, Bent to populate the land, To the Moorish region fair— And another two repair To the country of the Gaul; In this manner wend they all, And the seeds of nations lay.

Nor the fleas, whose size is prodigious, and whose name is Legion, and who populate the coach-house to that extent that I daily expect to see the carriage going off bodily, drawn by myriads of industrious fleas in harness.

They, or their ancestors of recent generations, had been pioneers among those venturesome colonists who reached out into distant portions of the world, and made homes for themselves in much the same spirit in which colonists from Europe began to populate America some two thousand years later.

The Americans of the United States have had time to build and populate vast cities, but they have not yet had time to surround themselves with pretty scenery.