Crossword-Solution: CRAPULOUS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

For what though the oven smoke? And what though I die ere morn? There was I nourished and tended, and there was Taheia born.” Noon was high on the High-place, the second noon of the feast; And heat and shameful slumber weighed on people and priest; And the heart drudged slow in bodies heavy with monstrous meals; And the senseless limbs were scattered abroad like spokes of wheels; And crapulous women sat and stared at the stones anigh With a bestial droop of the lip and a swinish rheum in the eye.

There, under the impenetrable _alias_ of the number of his bed, the crapulous being lay for some more days unconscious of all things, and of one thing in particular: that the police were after him.

His place in the parlour at the George, his absence from church, his old, crapulous, disreputable vices, were all things of course in Debenham.

Men in khaki moved to and fro like bees before their hive, overrunning the restaurants, the crapulous lunch houses, the parlous hotels, and the stands of the street vendors on which rotten pork lay alongside grimy cheese.

And then I scribble things like this: Gods in the Gutter I dreamed I saw three demi-gods who in a cafe sat, And one was small and crapulous, and one was large and fat; And one was eaten up with vice and verminous at that.