Crossword-Solution: TIBIAS 6 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Had I not dug up a dead body, only a few days before? Yes, I had been to a prehistoric burial-place, I had taken from it a pair of venerable, well-developed tibias, a set of funerary vessels and a few shoulders of horse, placed there as a viaticum for the great journey.

For nearly a month the youngsters, who lamented the loss of the pear-trees, played at bowls with the skulls; and one night some practical jokers even suspended femurs and tibias to all the bell-handles of the town.

Sunt autem per nemus istud fera animalia, et venenosa, sicut parui serpentes, colubri, et huiusmodi, de quibus nescio quis famam diffundit per nostras partes, quod vindemiatores piperis tales vermes fugant per ignem: sed non est ita, imò vngunt brachia manus, tibias, et pedes cum quodam succo herbæ dictæ Limonse, à quo cito diffugit omne venenum.

The thin tibias of the handsome Jewess met less success, and Louise Cocote, by way of a joke, put her petticoats over his head, so that _Madame_ was obliged to interfere to check such unseemly behavior.

The families are as follows: "Foundation"--this contains the Diapasons, Diaphones, Tibias, etc.; "woodwind"--this contains Flutes, Oboes, Clarinets, etc.; "strings"--this contains the Gambas, Viols d' Orchestre, Dulcianas, etc.; "brass"--this contains the Trumpets, Cornopeans and Tubas; "percussion"--this contains the Tympani, Gongs, Chimes, Glockenspiel, etc.