Crossword-Solution: KEMBLES 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The despatch was delivered in the evening while he was at the Kembles', and its effect upon the little group was like a bolt out of a clear sky.

From girlhood the Queen had been familiar with the Kembles in their connection with the English stage.

The last time she visited the Academy as Princess Victoria, just before the death of King William, Leslie mentions, she asked that Charles Kemble might be presented to her, when the gentleman had the opportunity of making his "best genteel-comedy bow." Now it was on the younger generation of the Kembles that the Queen bestowed her gracious countenance.

Their monopolies, no longer redeemed by the stately genius of the Kembles, the pathos of Miss O’Neill, or the fiery passion of Kean, were already menaced, and were soon about to fall; but the crowd of diminutive but sparkling substitutes, which have since taken their place, had not yet appeared, and half-price at Drury Lane or Covent Garden was a dreary distraction after a morning of desk work.

Quick, Ben and Lilly, before the Kembles." The dining room, directly over the basement kitchen, jutted in an ell off the rear of the house so that from the back parlor it was not difficult to precede the immediate overhead response to that bell.