Crossword-Solution: RIGMAROLES 10 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The laugh which echoes one of Seumas McManus's rigmaroles is not the chuckle which follows one of Joel Chandler Harris's anecdotes; the gentle sadness of an Andersen allegory is not the heart-searching tragedy of a tale from the Greek; nor is any one story of an author just like any other of the same making.

The sight of a poor creature grubbing for rhymes to fill up his sonnet, or to cram one of those voracious, rhyme-swallowing rigmaroles which some of our drudging poetical operatives have been exhausting themselves of late to satiate with jingles, makes my head ache and my stomach rebel.

One must sit with one's ears plugged, if one does not want the drums of them cracked; such long vociferous rigmaroles about Incorporeal Things, or something they call Virtue! That is how we came to neglect this man—who really deserved better.

Religion, to them, is four or five rigmaroles, which are printed in our _Abecedario_, the Creed, the Ave Maria, the various Sacraments, etc., which they know by heart.

They cheated us with that row they made." "Look here," cried Mark, pettishly, for he was in great pain, "I'm in no humour for listening to your rigmaroles.