Crossword-Solution: MISSPENT 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

They, in their different homes, and their different ways, might be looking back on it with pleasure; but in her view it was a morning more completely misspent, more totally bare of rational satisfaction at the time, and more to be abhorred in recollection, than any she had ever passed.

Were new life sent, and life misspent, Wiped out (if such to God seemed good), Would he (being as he was) repent, Or could he, even if he would, Who heeded not things understood (Though dimly) even in savage lands By some who worship stone or wood, Or bird or beast, or who stretch hands Sunward on shining Eastern sands? And crime has cause.

And something of the agony of the woman’s soul as she lay in torment, facing the wall, thinking of her son under the same roof, of a life misspent and irrevocable, I pictured.

There are many who have misused their opportunities, and are now longing for the time misspent and wishing to recall the earth-life.

Her poor, little misspent life has changed itself into a shining thing, though it shines and glows only in this hideous place.