Crossword-Solution: TELFERS 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

She could never, for instance, be influenced by what Maria Ansell and the Gaineses and the Telfers thought.

Langhope's indolent acuteness of mind and the rudimentary processes of the rosy Telfers there was a difference of degree but not of kind.

Ansell was the kind of woman who could encircle herself with privacy on an excursion-boat and create a nook in an hotel drawing-room, but it taxed even her ingenuity to segregate herself from the Telfers.

But the Captain only laughed and said, "Man, there’s nothing in thy house but an old sword without a sheath that could scarcely kill a mouse." [#] The Telfers, though they had become Scotch at the time of this ballad, were originally a Norman family, descended from the knight "Taille-fer" (cut-iron), who came over with William the Conqueror.

Here, in the town house of the Telfers of Scotstoun, overlooking the Canongate, resided the greatest of Scottish novelists after Scott himself, Tobias Smollett, on his last visit to the capital.