Crossword-Solution: DEMUREST 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Andrew Marvell [1621-1678] ON THE DEATH OF A FAVORITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB OF GOLD FISHES 'Twas on a lofty vase's side, Where China's gayest art had dyed The azure flowers that blow; Demurest of the tabby kind, The pensive Selima, reclined, Gazed on the lake below.

Mary's steed had answered every expectation, and proved himself very quiet; so quiet, that without the admonition of a cudgel behind him, he could hardly be persuaded into the demurest trot.

Why did it darken? The demurest of fuliginous intriguers argued that Brail stone was but doing the spiriting required of him, and would have to pay the penalty unrewarded, let him Italianize as much as he pleased.

And it's innocent while it 's no worse than an effort to do a disagreeable thing as delicately as you can.' She shrugged as delicately as she could: 'We cannot possibly please everybody in life.' 'No: only we may spare them a shock: mayn't we?' 'Sophistries of any description, I detest.' 'But sometimes you smile to please, don't you?' 'Do you detect falseness in that?' she answered, after the demurest of pauses.

Charles Edward was expressing some irritation and anxiety over the lateness of Stillman Dane, when that young man quietly emerged from the music-room, with Peggy beside him in the demurest little travelling suit with an immense breast-plate of white violets.