Crossword-Solution: ESPOUSED 8 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Here in close recess With Flowers, Garlands, and sweet-smelling Herbs Espoused _Eve_ deckt first her Nuptial Bed, And heav’nly Quires the Hymenaean sung, What day the genial Angel to our Sire Brought her in naked beauty more adorn’d, More lovely then _Pandora_, whom the Gods Endowd with all thir gifts, and O too like In sad event, when to the unwiser Son Of _Japhet_ brought by _Hermes_, she ensnar’d Mankind with her faire looks, to be aveng’d On him who had stole _Joves_ authentic fire.

The article espoused the "such a shame for the company" tone on the loss of their technical wizard and co-founder.

Fortunately for that cause, and fortunately for him by whom it is espoused, it requires no extraordinary amount of talent to preach it or to receive it when preached.

However, with a kind of infinitely reverse logic, most of the scholars dipping their toes into cyberspace, have the espoused idea that no Etexts should vary by one character from some exact paper predecessor, and that these Etexts, new that they are, should be absolutely identified with a particular paper edition which cannot be improved upon.

Before long an occasional boot pattered against the barrel or whistled past our parson’s head; but here some of the more orderly of the inhabitants interfered in favour of peace and order, aided curiously enough by the afore-mentioned Maule and Phillips, who warmly espoused the cause of the little Scripture reader.