Crossword-Solution: MAHON 5 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

With each succeeding year the "Old Faubourg" withdrew more and more into its shell, going so far, after the fall of Mac Mahon, as to change its "season" to the spring, so that the balls and _fetes_ it gave should not coincide with the "official" entertainments during the winter.

Mahon undertook the cooking, and unexpectedly developed all a Frenchman’s genius for preparing nice little messes.

Drunken and libertine cadis are they, formerly servants to some General Yusuf or the like, who get intoxicated on champagne, along with laundresses from Port Mahon, and fatten on roast mutton, whilst before their tents the whole tribe waste away with hunger, and fight with the harriers for the bones of the lordly feast.

Bancroft was chosen an Honorary Member of the Society of Antiquaries, of which Lord Mahon is president, Hallam, vice-president.

The captain was too "wide awake" for him, and beginning upon him at once, gave him a grand blow-up, in true nautical style--"You're a lazy, good-for-nothing rascal; you're neither man, boy, soger, nor sailor! you're no more than a thing aboard a vessel! you don't earn your salt! you're worse than a Mahon soger!" and other still more choice extracts from the sailor's vocabulary.