Crossword-Solution: ARCHDEMON 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

But this being Lent, and there being special preachers every day, it chanced on Sunday morning that I came upon three of him all in a row, and oh, my gracious, Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these! “It is too bad, though, to think that men like John Storm can't find room in the Church for the sole of their foot, while this archdemon is flourishing in it like a green bay tree.

Whether it is still among the royal plate is a point to be determined by 'Notes and Queries.' The growth of letters and of science changes all this; just as Venus vanished a few centuries ago, Old Bogy also--the foe of our infancy--has vanished from modern nurseries, nor do very many children of elder growth believe in an archdemon of the graminivorous type.

Each one murmured to himself, "Why must men thus torture, tear, ruin one another? Why should they thus hate each other? And what ferocious spirit urges them to such deeds, if not the spirit of evil, the archdemon himself?" Dives alone and his men were unmoved, and galloped on laughing and applauding what had been done.