Crossword-Solution: HOLEY 5 letters, 50 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

And some ingenious Sicilian has made an allegory, in which he represents fools as the uninitiated, who are supposed to be carrying water to a vessel, which is full of holes, in a similarly holey sieve, and this sieve is their own soul.

Now Alfred had already observed that many of the patients looked madder than they were--thanks to short trousers and petticoats, holey gloves, ear-cutting shirt-collars, frilled bosoms, shoes made for and declined by the very infantry: coats short in the waist and long in the sleeves, coalscuttle bonnets, and grand-maternal caps.

This Abbey, he cottoned to Eddie right from the start, an' durin' the next few years they mine around in the prison till she's as holey as a Switzer cheeze; an' durin' their leisure he edicates Eddie till he knows more'n a college professor.

Don't get thinkin' of somethin' else and come down with one whole and one holey, same as you did last time.

The Baron wishes success to this work of the Dean in Holey Orders, and suggests that the volume should be re-entitled _Gathered Leaves from Dean Hole's Rose Garden_, a better title than "Reminiscences." MARION CRAWFORD'S _Don Orsino_ (published by MACMILLAN & CO.) would be worth reading were it only for the colour of its word-painting, and for its high-comedy dialogue.