Crossword-Solution: FUNICULI 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

And after him came a Japanese juggler of prodigious swiftness, and then a fat German woman in peasant guise who sang folk-songs, and wound up with “O, du lieber Augustin!” After which the company joined in the chorus of “Funiculi, funicula” and “Gaudeamus igitur”--for the patrons of the “Boheme” were nothing if they were not cosmopolitan.

Besides the absence of an arillus, there is another anomaly about the above Colycynth, which is, that between each placenta a broad partition projects from the wall of the fruit, usually provided with 3-septa, so as to be divided into two chambers, these contain seeds, the funiculi passing completely through them; seeds are also contained between the outermost septa and the placentae themselves.

For I tell you here and now, Matilda Anne, I, poor, puny, good-for-nothing, insignificant I, have heard that music of the spheres as clearly as you ever heard _Funiculi-Funicula_ on that little Naples steamer that used to take you to Capri.

Moquin also alludes to a case of the same nature in _Cortusa Mathioli_, in which the funiculi bore little rounded leaves.

Had it not been that a diet of spaghetti and anæmic wine, a _tord-boyau_ (intestine-twister) of unparalleled virulence undermined my constitution, and that the four children, whose bedroom I shared, all took whooping-cough at once and thus robbed me of sleep, I might have been coffin-making to the tune of _Funiculi, Funiculà_ to the present day." Here and there were jottings of figures.