Crossword-Solution: JOGTROT 7 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The Turks are indeed stout and terrifying fellows when seen, not in a poetry book but in a long line running at you in a heavy jogtrot way with fixed bayonets gleaming.

And many a young fellow deserted the jogtrot University curriculum, to hang on in the dust behind the fervid wheels of the Parliamentary chariot.

While one nursed the sick, the other made clothes for the well; and thus they were always chippering and chatting to each other, like a pair of antiquated house-sparrows, retailing over harmless gossips, and moralizing in that gentle jogtrot which befits serious old women.

The versification, though far from faultless, is free, surging, and melodious--one of the devices which the author most constantly employs with a view to avoiding jogtrot uniformity being that of beginning a new sentence with the second line of a couplet.

They were a couple contented with themselves and their position in society,--a trifle too frugal, if not near--staid, jogtrot, business people of week days, church-goers who patronized free seats for economy's sake on Sundays.