Crossword-Solution: WALED 5 letters, 16 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

But just as I was growin’ vext He waled a maist judeecious text, An’, launchin’ into his prelections, Swoopt, wi’ a skirl, on a’ defections.

One day he came before the king, And kneel’d low on his knee: “A boon, a boon, my good uncle, I crave to ask of thee! “At our lang wars, in fair Scotland, I fain ha’e wish’d to be, If fifteen hundred waled wight men You’ll grant to ride with me.” “Thou shall ha’e thae, thou shall ha’e mae; I say it sickerlie; And I myself, an auld gray man, Array’d your host shall see.” King Edward rade, King Edward ran— I wish him dool and pyne! Till he had fifteen hundred men Assembled on the Tyne.

One hour and a half, the village Om Waled [Arabic], one hour and three quarters, the village El Esleha [Arabic], inhabited principally by Christians.

Whatever trouble came on Rutherford all his days--the persecution of the bishop, his banishment to Aberdeen, the shutting of his mouth from preaching Christ, the loss of wife and child, and the poignant pains of sanctification--he gathered them all up under the familiar figure of a waled and chosen cross.

Seeing I must have sorrow, for I have sinned, O Preserver of mankind, Thou hast waled and selected out for me a joyful sorrow--an honest, spiritual, glorious sorrow.