Crossword-Solution: WHISKS 6 letters, 21 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

Even for a man unburthened, the ascent was toilsome and precarious; but Irvine sealed it with a light foot, carrying box after box, as the hero whisks the stage child up the practicable footway beside the waterfall of the fifth act.

For not only do most of these flies vary in colour in different soils and climates, but many of them change their hue during life; the Ephemeræ, especially, have a habit of throwing off the whole of their skins (even, marvellously enough, to the skin of the eyes and wings, and the delicate “whisks” at their tail), and appearing in an utterly new garb after ten minutes’ rest, to the discomfiture of the astonished angler.

And what was the oddest of all, the whisks at the end of his tail had grown five times as long as they were before.

VII She issues radiant from her dressing-room, Like one prepared to scale an upper sphere: —By stirring up a lower, much I fear! How deftly that oiled barber lays his bloom! That long-shanked dapper Cupid with frisked curls Can make known women torturingly fair; The gold-eyed serpent dwelling in rich hair Awakes beneath his magic whisks and twirls.

For sot, and seer, and swain, For emperors and for churls, For antidote and bane, There is but one refrain: But one for king and thrall, For David and for Saul, For fleet of foot and lame, For pieties and profanities, The picture and the frame:— ‘O Vanity of Vanities!’ Life is a smoke that curls— Curls in a flickering skein, That winds and whisks and whirls A figment thin and vain, Into the vast Inane.