Crossword-Solution: PENDU 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The courageous surgeon at once set out, and, after braving many dangers (to use his own words, “d’estre pendu, estranglé ou mis en pièces”), he succeeded in passing the enemy’s lines, and entered Metz in safety.

The _api étoilé_ has five prominent ridges, hence its name; the _api noir_ is nearly black: the _twin cluster pippin_ often bears fruit joined in pairs.[87] The trees of the several sorts differ greatly in their periods of leafing and flowering; in my orchard the _Court Pendu Plat_ produces leaves so late, that during several springs I thought that it was dead.

There is a social respect necessary: you may start your own subject of conversation with modesty, taking great care, however, 'de ne jamais parler de cordes dans la maison d'un pendu.--[Never to mention a rope in the family of a man who has been hanged]--Your words, gestures, and attitudes, have a greater degree of latitude, though by no means an unbounded one.

There is a social respect necessary: you may start your own subject of conversation with modesty, taking great care, however, ‘de ne jamais parler de cordes dans la maison d’un pendu.--[Never to mention a rope in the family of a man who has been hanged]--Your words, gestures, and attitudes, have a greater degree of latitude, though by no means an unbounded one.

You mustn't even try to.' "'Well, we'll go on to-morrow, then; only we must find somewhere to pass the night.' "'I'll go with you,' I said, 'as far as the Pendu farm--they're not short of room in that shop.