Crossword-Solution: JESHURUN 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Our little Mantatee ‘Kleenboy’ has again, like Jeshurun, ‘waxed fat and kicked’, as soon as he had eaten enough to be once more plump and shiny.

Perhaps this is the secret of their villainy—“Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked.” Yokote, a town of 10,000 people, in which the best _yadoyas_ are all non-respectable, is an ill-favoured, ill-smelling, forlorn, dirty, damp, miserable place, with a large trade in cottons.

The Commission does not meet till next week, so like the historical donkey of Jeshurun I have nothing to do but wax fat and kick in this excellent pasture.

His weakness, in fact, his besetting sin, is too truly described by Moses:-- "But Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked; Thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, Thou art covered with fatness." Scornfully he is determined upon it; he will none of your scruples; his women shall be fat as he pleases, and you shall like him nevertheless.

This Jeshurun of a pawnbroker was not a symbol of the great Jewish tragedy; and yet was there not something typical in the fact that a life like Mordecai’s—a frail incorporation of the national consciousness, breathing with difficult breath—was nested in the self-gratulating ignorant prosperity of the Cohens? Glistening was the gladness in their faces when Deronda reappeared among them.