Crossword-Solution: VERMOUTH 8 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

The sun is off the front of the house by this time, so we migrate to a shady corner of the lawn for our _apéritif_, the inevitable vermouth or “bitters” which Frenchmen take at five o’clock.

THE SPHINX WITHOUT A SECRET AN ETCHING ONE afternoon I was sitting outside the Café de la Paix, watching the splendour and shabbiness of Parisian life, and wondering over my vermouth at the strange panorama of pride and poverty that was passing before me, when I heard some one call my name.

The Dictator, on the other hand, appeared to enjoy an unusual flow of spirits; his laugh, which was youthful and pleasant to hear, sounded frequently from the garden; by the modulation and the changes of his voice it was obvious that he told many droll stories and imitated the accents of a variety of different nations; and before he and the young clergyman had finished their vermouth all feeling of distrust was at an end, and they were talking together like a pair of school companions.

Every trader in the islands was thinking of getting his old dollars sent up here in time, and the demand for empty French wine cases—you know the dozen of vermouth or claret size—was something unprecedented.

His desire for liquidation was expressed so heartily that I went with him to a café down the street where we had some vile vermouth and bitters.