Crossword-Solution: MARRA 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Marra to Bonney What would you do wi’ a doughter— Pray wi’ her, bensil[1] her, flout her?— Say, what would you do wi’ a daughter That’s marra to Bonney[2] hissen? I prayed wi’ her first, of a Sunday, When chapil was lowsin’ for t’ neet; An’ I laid all her cockaloft marlocks[3] ’Fore th’ Almighty’s mercy-seat.

She winced when she heeard all their girnin’, Then she whispered, a sob i’ her throat: “I reckon I’ll noan think o’ weddin’ While women are given their vote.” What would you do wi’ a doughter— Pray wi’ her, bensil her, flout her?— Say, what would you do wi’ a daughter That’s marra to Bonney hissen? [1] Beat.

Moreover, when pieces of flesh were found among the pagan bodies at Marra, and elsewhere, during a terrible famine, a hideous rumor (based on something that had been done furtively and very rarely) circulated widely among the pagans, that there were some men in the Frankish army who eagerly fed upon the corpses of Saracens.

Feteyry belongs to the district of Marra; its inhabitants have often been punished for their rebellious conduct, and their predatory incursions into the neighbouring districts; their spirit, however, is unbroken, and they still follow the same practices.

The latter are subdivided into the tribes of Okmán and El Marra, weaker than the disciples of Aly, and often at variance with them, although both parties unite whenever Nedjrán is attacked by a foreign enemy.