Crossword-Solution: INFERNOS 8 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

This one feature, is the absence in the Russian infernos of all hypocritical protestations to the public of humane treatment and of aversion from severities.

There is still an occasional line of splendid beauty, like the wonderful-- _Sunt apud infernos tot milia formosarum;_ an occasional passage of stately rhythm, like the lines beginning-- _Quandocunque igitur nostros mors clausit ocellos;_ but the smooth versification has now few surprises; the learning is becoming more mechanical; there is a tendency to say over again what he had said before, and not to say it quite so well.

Ceaseless activity reigns in these industrial infernos, with three shifts of men working during each twenty-four hours; and from the innumerable works come every form of manufactured steel and iron goods, from a pair of scissors or a plated teaspoon to steel rails and armour plate.

But a more striking feature in these "Ordinaries" showed itself as soon as "the voyder had cleared the table." Then began "the shuffling and cutting on one side, and the bones rattling on the other." The "Ordinarie," in fact, was a gambling-house, like those now expressively termed "Hells," and I doubt if the present "Infernos" exceed the whole _diablerie_ of our ancestors.

Destructive though they be and a scourge to the husbandman, one cannot but pity the luckless captives doomed to spend practically the whole of their existence in small iron cages, which, when exposed to the sun in the hot weather, as they often are, must be veritable infernos.