Crossword-Solution: STEADS 6 letters, 27 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

XVI "It steads not to strike sail, nor lash the mast, Lowered on the gang-board, nor our castles fell; The bark, in our despite, is hurried fast Towards the pointed rocks about Rochelle: Save He, above, assist us at the last, The cruel storm will us ashore impel; Driven thither by ill wind with mightier speed Than ever bow-string gave to whistling reed.

Since the sword steads not, I will make assay If with my bugle I can clear the way." LXXXVIII As he was customed in extremity, He to his mouth applied the bugle's round; The wide world seemed to tremble, earth and sky, As he in air discharged the horrid sound.

But troweth not that I will tell you all the towns, and cities and castles that men shall go by; for then should I make too long a tale; but all only some countries and most principal steads that men shall go through to go the right way.

This morning are they fled away and gone, And in their steads do ravens, crows, and kites Fly o’er our heads, and downward look on us, As we were sickly prey: their shadows seem A canopy most fatal, under which Our army lies, ready to give up the ghost.

This done, the Heer Marais showed me the room in which we were to have our lessons, one of the _sitkammer_, or sitting chambers, whereof, unlike most Boer steads, this house boasted two.