Crossword-Solution: LEVENS 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Force.” And on the opposite page I wrote-- “IN CASE OF DEATH please post as soon as possible to GORDON HARGRAVE, Cinderbarrow Cottage, Levens, Westmorland.” I remember printing the word “DEATH,” and wondering if the book would some day lie with my own dead body “somewhere in the Dardanelles.” Printing that word in England before we started made the whole thing seem very real.

The jagged hail was a herald of our coming; the levens that smote and stabbed were our sword and spear, while ever the hurricane roared and screamed with a million separate voices which blended to one yell of sound, hideous and indescribable.

And yet she’s had warnings--she very nearly made a dreadful mistake once with the Duchess of Levens, who dyed her hair and--well, swore and smoked.

Charles Naseby, Edward Watton, Lady Madeleine Penley, the Levens--some or all of these were generally to be found in Lady Maxwell's neighbourhood, rendering homage or help in one way or another.

From twelve thousand throats one great sigh went up, like the sigh of wind upon the sea, and ere it died away, from either end of the arena, like arrows from the bow, like levens from a cloud, the champions started forth, their stallions gathering speed at every stride.