Crossword-Solution: UNLIVELY 8 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

After a hot, unlively march of four hours (= eleven miles), on mules worn out by want of water, we dismounted at a queer isolated lump on the left of the track.

Simultaneously, from the farther corner, another pedestrian debouched, into the thoroughfare--a mere moving shadow at that distance, brother to blacker shadows that skulked in the fenced areas and unlively entries of that poorly lighted block.

But before she had time to decide which of the unlively men, loitering round the carriages or helping stout old dowagers up slim iron ladders, was sufficiently lugubrious to be identified as the martyr of the ballot-box, she was absorbed by a tall, masterful figure, whose face had the radiance of easeful success, and whose hands were clapping at some nuance of style which had escaped the palms of the great circular mob.

With him she could enjoy even the unlively splendour of a function, but without him she would have been very unhappy.

There are many finer valleys than this in Asben, and were the trees not preserved, it would be a very barren, unlively spot.