Crossword-Solution: DENNED 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Likewise Michael came to know what Harley Kennan never did know and always denied as existing on his ranch--the one rocky outcrop, in the dense heart of the mountain forest, where a score of rattlesnakes denned through the winters and warmed themselves in the sun.

The dust had been scattered from a black vase that bore on its front, in a circular medallion, the lurid head of grinning Hecate; and the last rite to appease the unquiet manes was performed by the uplifted right arm that poured libations from a burnished brass urn, held aloft over the pall of earth that denned the figure beneath.

Then the voice spoke once more-- "Dost thou believe in Love, the generator of Life and the moving Cause and Mind of all created things?" And again I replied-- "With all my soul!" The Figure now bent slightly towards me, and the light within its darkness became more denned and brilliant.

The present movement toward a short ballot, with responsibility clearly denned and concentrated, will doubtless do away ultimately with the clumsy systems by which both States and cities in this country are now governed-the two-chambered legislatures, with their inevitable friction betwixt themselves and with the executive.

Nob Hill arose, like any medieval castle, from the mess and ruck of common life that denned and laired at its base.