Crossword-Solution: SWASHBUCKLER 12 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 26

Swashbuckler," she said; and then: "But oh! you have not hurt the lad?" she demanded, with a tincture of anxiety.

CHAPTER XCVIII An exordium--Fine ships--High Barbary captains--Free-born Englishmen--Monstrous figure--Swashbuckler--The grand coaches--The footmen--A travelling expedition--Black Jack--Nelson's cannon--Pharaoh's butler--A diligence--Two passengers--Sharking priest--Virgilio--Lessons in Italian--Two opinions--Holy Mary--Priestly confederates--Methodist chapel--Veturini--Some of our party--Like a sepulchre--All for themselves.

Some of his comrades, whom we afterwards saw, said that there were various reports about him on the shore; one that he had taken on with Mumbo Jumbo, and was serving him in his house in the woods, in the capacity of swashbuckler, or life-guardsman; another, that he was gone in quest of a mighty city in the heart of the negro country; another, that in swimming a stream he had been devoured by an alligator.

Now, these two last reports were bad enough; the idea of their flesh and blood being bit asunder by a ravenous fish was sad enough to my poor parents; and not very comfortable was the thought of his sweltering over the hot sands in quest of the negro city; but the idea of their son, their eldest child, serving Mumbo Jumbo as swashbuckler was worst of all, and caused my poor parents to shed many a scalding tear.

The mere possibility of one of their children being swashbuckler to Mumbo Jumbo on the high Barbary shore has always been a source of heart-breaking to my poor parents.