Crossword-Solution: LEANIN 6 letters, 28 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Justifyin' yourself by works instead o' leanin' onto Him! Find Him, sez you! Git Him, sez you! Works is vain.

And then--what do you think he saw?--why, that thar hoss! with two bullet holes in his neck, lyin' beside him, but still grippin' his coat collar and neck-handkercher in his teeth! Yes, sir! the rough that attacked Colonel Starbottle, the villain that took me behind when I was leanin' agin that cursed fence, was that same God-forsaken, hell-invented pinto hoss!” In a flash of recollection the editor remembered his own experience, and the singular scuffle outside the stable door of the fonda.

But the too optimistic Daddy Folsom referred this act to improvement, and went on cheerfully: “Yes, sir, you're better now, and”--here he assumed an air of cautious deliberation, extravagant, as all his assumptions were--“I ain't sayin' that--ef--you--was--to--rise--up” (very slowly) “and heave a blanket or two over your shoulders--jest by way o' caution, you know--and leanin' on me, kinder meander over to Bob Falloner's cabin and the boys, it wouldn't do you a heap o' good.

Now, leanin’ forward from the ’ips, takin’ your time from me.” The dumb-bells rose and fell, clashed and were returned as one.

You never know what you may have to say to your men.--For pity’s sake, try to stand up without leanin’ against each other, you blear-eyed, herrin’-gutted gutter-snipes.