Crossword-Solution: OPACA 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The shells embedded in the calcareous beds forming the surface of this fringe-like plain, at the height of from 200 to 250 feet above the sea, consist of:— Venus opaca.

Mathilde (or Matilda--the opera was sung in Italian), does not appear in the opera until the second act, and then she has the most familiar air in the opera to sing--"Selva opaca," an air which then belonged to the concert-room repertory of most florid sopranos.

For ten minutes we picked our way in the deep shadow along the foot of the wall, _per opaca locorum_, as the great weaver of words puts it, and then I turned outwards into the open field and the clear moonlight.

The most striking verses in it, here quoted as the book is rare, answer more or less to stanzas 2 and 6: Alma Quies, teneo te! et te, germana Quietis, Simplicitas! vos ergo diu per templa, per urbes Quaesivi, regum perque alta palatia, frustra: Sed vos hortorum per opaca silentia, longe Celarunt plantae virides, et concolor umbra.

Pinus Banksiana 8 _Rhodora_, III, 234 Acer Saccharum, Marsh., _var._ barbatum, Trelease 172 Acer Saccharum, Marsh., _var._ nigrum, Britton 172 _Rhodora_, III, 58 Ilex opaca, Ait.