Crossword-Solution: TENEBRA 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

And the value of human life, so cheap here in this thirsty million of souls, cheap in the hospitals; but really, essentially, at the bottom of things, who knew how cheap it was? Thus for an hour or more his mind was let loose among the tenebra of life, while his feet pushed on mechanically over the dusty roads that skirted the lake.

And even in the tenebra of far-back coves, where conditions exist as gross as anything to be found in the wynds and closes of our great cities, there is this blessed difference: that these half-wild creatures have not been hopelessly submerged, have not been driven into desperate war against society.

His Holiness was not in the habit of receiving any one merely for the sake of hearing expressions of gratitude; still less did I expect to be introduced on such a day, when the Pope, after attending at the holy function, had retired to his apartments, with a view of coming back for _Tenebra_, and was in the very act of reciting Complin, which was to be followed by his dinner.

The battering-ram, the tenebra of the Romans, used both on land and sea, was a heavy oak beam tapering towards the head, which was shod with iron with a point at the extremity.