Crossword-Solution: TINTAMARRE 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Hopkins used to say, when the noisy tintamarre began, "My hearers, have a little patience, and I will soon close." Another clergyman was irritated beyond endurance by the stamping, clattering feet, a _supplosio pedis_ that he regarded as an irreverent protest and complaint against the severity of the weather, rather than as a hint to him to conclude his long sermon.

Marie de Latre, rattling of crockery, a noise of whirring in the air, a jingling as of coins (familiar at Epworth), and, briefly, all the usually reported tintamarre.

Translated fully it runs thus:-- "In the afternoon took a guard and marched across the Tintamarre to see what mischief the redskins had been at, having observed them to leave two of their number in the channel, and to linger long on the brink, as if watching something in the stream.

And then suddenly changing to English, which he spoke perfectly, saving with a foreign accent,--“How did you sleep? I suppose the _tintamarre_ awoke you.” I hastened to apologize for my intrusion; which he stopped at once by asking if I had passed a comfortable night, and had a great appetite for breakfast.

Commerson, chief editor of the _Tintamarre_ (Paris journal.) They are called fantastic, original and forcible.