Crossword-Solution: OCCULTLY 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

The boy with the billiard ball said that he had never seen it in his life before, and hazarded the suggestion that it had got into his box through some mysterious and occultly evil agency.

First, those who “_creep_” into the fold; who do not care for office, nor name, but for secret influence, and do all things occultly and cunningly, consenting to any servility of office or conduct, so only that they may intimately discern, and unawares direct, the minds of men.

Occultly through a riven cloud The ancient river shines again, Still wandering like a silver road Among the cities in the plain.

Disdain, then, Thyself and Nature and the Power Occultly reigning to the common ruin: Scorn, heart, the infinite emptiness of all things! Nature was so cruel a stepmother to this man that he could see nothing but harm even in her apparent beneficence, and his verse repeats again and again his dark mistrust of the very loveliness which so keenly delights his sense.

Winnie laughed, and so did Kathlyn, but she did so because occultly she felt that her father expected her to laugh.