Crossword-Solution: CLARISSAS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

There had been setting of caps, without number, ay, and pulling them too, an the truth were known among the fair Stellas and Clarissas, the Daphnes and Dorises, of Charlemont, but, though Stevens was sufficiently considerate of the claims of each, so far as politeness demanded it, and contrived to say pleasant things, pour passer le temps, with all of them, it was very soon apparent to the most sanguine, that the imperial beauties and imperious mind of Margaret Cooper had secured the conquest for herself.

You are a dangerous young fellow—a kind of Lovelace who will make the Clarissas run after you instead of you running after them.” What was the use of being exasperated at a tasteless joke?—only the exasperation comes before the reflection on utility.

What could she do? In the dreary round of petty details, in the incessant drudgery of a poor farmer's household, with no companions of any sympathy--for the family of a hard-working New England farmer are not the Chloes and Clarissas of pastoral poetry, nor are cow-boys Corydons--with no opportunity of retirement and cultivation, for reading and studying--which is always voted "stuff" under such circumstances--the light suddenly quenched out of life, what was she to do? "Adapt herself to her circumstances.

Then there were at Dorking many disciples of the Aikins and Barbaulds, those Clarissas and Laetitias of a pseudo-classic age whose dull wit was as forced as were the turgid sentiments of the eminently proper characters in their writings.

The sentimental novels over which our grandfathers and grandmothers shed floods of tears—the “Corinnas,” the “Clarissas,” and the “New Heloises”—have become for us soporifics of an almost irresistible strength.