Crossword-Solution: TIF 3 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Once I myself (_moi chétif_) owned a novel in blue morocco, which had been in the collection of Madame de Verrue.

They were all novels of the flimsiest sort,—“L’Amitié Dangereuse,” “Les Suites d’un Moment d’Erreur,” and even the stories of Louvet and of Rétif de la Bretonne.

They explain their conduct by saying that they "hoped to put an end to the excessive expenditure to which the French empire was subject through the prolonged detention of conspirators."] [Footnote 31118: Rétif de la Bretonne, 388.] [Footnote 31119: Méhée, 177.] [Footnote 31120: Prudhomme, "Les Crimes de la Révolution." III.

But in his figure, in the greeny loden suit, he looked _chétif_ and puny, still strangely different from the rest.

Binns' office is situated, and we are waited upon by several of his business acquaintances; among them a member of the celebrated - celebrated in Asia Minor - Tif- ticjeeoghlou family, whose ancestors have been prominently engaged in the mohair business for so long that their very name is significatory of their profession - Tifticjee-oghlou, literally, "Mohair-dealer's son." The Smiths, Bakers, and Hunters of Occidental society are not a whit more significative than are many prominent names of the Orient.