Crossword-Solution: KHOT 4 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Broadside he turned, a mountain-god In sweep of coronal sublime, And the fierce whisper broke-- The Khan of Khot's, he hissed, "_Tak time_!" And handed me my spinning-rod; And as he did I woke! * * * * * One thing at least is clear, and that's My empty wall is yet to fill; Though oft with even's shade I see that great head from the hill, Unstable as the Cheshire cat's, Look down therefrom and fade.

The respect with which Bogun spoke of the prince captivated the lieutenant; so he smiled and said in a more friendly voice,-- "I see that you are not satisfied yet with the expeditions which you have had with men of the lower country, which however have covered you with glory." "Small war, small glory! Konashevich Sahaidachni did not win it on boats, but in Khotím." At that moment a door opened, and Vassily, the eldest of the Kurtsevichi, came slowly into the room, led by Helena.

When two hundred thousand armored Germans marched at Grünwald on the regiments of Yagello, and when at Khotím half Asia appeared in the fight, destruction seemed still nearer.

They may have a secret understanding with the Pasha of the boundary near Khotím, or with the Tartars beyond the Dniester about a future war,--who knows? They will be watchful of strangers, particularly of strangers inquiring the way.

Over a thousand feet of golden dust-pall covering the corpses of the six sand-buried cities of Khotân! Buried when, and how? And wherefore, in God's name, did humanity found its houses on the Moving Sands? Fine stimulation here, for the imagination of a poet born.