Crossword-Solution: ACOCK 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

And in the waiting silences the rudder whined beneath, And each man drew his watchful breath slow taken 'tween the teeth -- Trigger and ear and eye acock, knit brow and hard-drawn lips -- Bracing his feet by chock and cleat for the rolling of the ships.

Miller steadied himself, and thought, "Here goes a finisher or a dead miss." He gave a sharp whistle, the Bear stopped every move, and, as he stood with ears acock, the man fired at his head.

When they were within thirty yards of the garbage-heap, Grumpy turned to her son and said something which, judging from its effect, must have meant: "Johnny, my child, I think you had better stay here while I go and chase those fellows away." Johnny obediently waited; but he wanted to _see_, so he sat up on his hind legs with eyes agog and ears acock.

But for the huge right column of invaders advancing on Birmingham by way of Acock's Green, it seemed an even match, yet as afternoon passed the firing in the valley swelled in volume, and the mad clamour of battle still surged up into the blue cloudless heavens.

Indeed, had it not been for the reinforcements, numbering 50,000, from the right column, which were by this time coming up with all speed from Acock's Green, the Russians, in their terribly jaded and demoralised state, could not have marched upon the city.