Crossword-Solution: ALIFT 5 letters, 9 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The lightning spattered the sky as a thrown egg spatters a barn-door, but the light was pale blue, not yellow; and, looking through my split bamboo blinds, I could see the great dog standing, not sleeping, in the verandah, the hackles alift on her back and her feet anchored as tensely as the drawn wire-rope of a suspension bridge.

And the postman had found, On the whole of his round, That no one received such a lot Of bulky epistles As, waiting his whistles, The beautiful Guinevere got! [Illustration] A significant sign That her charm was divine Was seen in society, when The chaperons sniffed With their eyebrows alift: "Whatever's got into the men?" There was always a man Who was holding her fan, And twenty that danced in details, And a couple of mourners, Who brooded in corners, And gnawed their mustaches and nails.