Crossword-Solution: PROTEGES 8 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The political ambition of many of its agents and proteges led it far afield into questionable activities, until the South, nursing its own deep prejudices, came easily to ignore all the good deeds of the Bureau, and hate its very name with perfect hatred.

She was forever running after fads, appearing continually in the society wherein she moved with new and astounding proteges--fakirs whom she unearthed no one knew where, discovering them long in advance of her companions.

Were not the slaves, thanks to the right of sanctuary and to their poverty, the dearest proteges of religion? Constantine, who embodied in the laws the grand ideas of Christianity, valued the life of a slave as highly as that of a freeman, and declared the master, who had intentionally brought death upon his slave, guilty of murder.

Besides which, numerous little private incidentals had to be put in running order for a month, and she realized with a pang at parting with some of her simple, sincere proteges that were this part of her life withdrawn, the rest would pall insufferably.

Besides, he wrote the beautiful prospectus for the oil.” “He believes in my oil?” said Cesar, “then put him down, dear child.” “I have put down all my proteges,” said Cesarine.