Crossword-Solution: CCC 3 letters, 134 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

But what vexed me then, and does still, is, that by the defect at the end of the inscription, one cannot be certain whether he lived in CCC.

But we are still operating under a patchwork accumulation of old laws, which cost us $1 billion a year in CCC carrying charges alone, yet fail to halt rural poverty or boost farm earnings.

CCC The quiver clangs upon him, The flashing lance and the javelin; Furiously bounding, he swallows the ground, And cannot be reined in at the trumpet-blast.

Fleance, the Son of Banquo, who was murdered by the order of the Usurper Macbeth, to avoid the like Fate, fled to North Wales, where he was kindly and hospitably entertained by Prince Gryffydd ab Llewelyn ab Sitsyllt.[ccc] [Footnote ccc: Cecil, the Family name of the Marquis of Salisbury, and of the Earl of Exeter seems to be derived from this ancient British name, anglicized.] Ungenerously he debauched his Daughter, Nest, by whom he had a Son, called Walter.

But a friend or gossip she had not one To hear the vile deeds that the Count had done, How night after night he rambled; And how she had learn'd by sad degrees That he drank, and smoked, and worse than these, That he "swindled, intrigued, and gambled." CCC.