Crossword-Solution: PADUS 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Thus Padus flows In brimming flood, and foaming at his bounds, Making whole districts quake; and should the bank Fail 'neath his swollen waters, all his stream Breaks forth in swirling eddies over fields Not his before; some lands are lost, the rest Gain from his bounty.

Some speak of hollow caverns, breathing holes Deep in the earth, within whose mighty jaws Waters in noiseless current underneath From northern cold to southern climes are drawn: And when hot Meroe pants beneath the sun, Then, say they, Ganges through the silent depths And Padus pass: and from a single fount The Nile arising not in single streams Pours all the rivers forth.

Mighty little we troubled ourselves for _Padus_, the Po, “a river broader and more rapid than the Rhone,” and the times when Hannibal led his grim Africans to its banks, and his elephants thrust their trunks into the yellow waters over which that pendulum ferry-boat was swinging back and forward every ten minutes! —Here are some of those reminiscences, with morals prefixed, or annexed, or implied.

Mighty little we troubled ourselves for Padus, the Po, "a river broader and more rapid than the Rhone," and the times when Hannibal led his grim Africans to its banks, and his elephants thrust their trunks into the yellow waters over which that pendulum ferry-boat was swinging back and forward every ten minutes! --Here are some of those reminiscences, with morals prefixed, or annexed, or implied.

Not one out of a hundred seedlings of a variety of the _Cerasus padus,_ with yellow fruit, bore yellow fruit: one-twelfth of the seedlings of the variety of _Cornus mascula,_ with yellow fruit, came true:[44] and lastly, all the trees raised by my father from a yellow-berried holly (_Ilex aquifolium_), found wild, produced yellow berries.