Crossword-Solution: PISTE 5 letters, 32 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The time, as I have said, was September, the day dull and showery, and some of the damp and gloom of it seemed to have penetrated the long Hall of the Manege, where on their eight rows of green benches elliptically arranged in ascending tiers about the space known as La Piste, sat some eight or nine hundred of the representatives of the three orders that composed the nation.

They grew restive under that steady flow of pompous verbiage, and it was in vain that the four ushers in black satin breeches and carefully powdered heads, chain of office on their breasts, gilded sword at their sides, circulated in the Piste, clapping their hands, and hissing, “Silence! En place!” Equally vain was the intermittent ringing of the bell by the president at his green-covered table facing the tribune.

The work itself comprised passages from the Law and the Prophets relating to the Saviour and to the Christian faith generally ([Greek: peri tou Sôtêros kai pasês tês pisteôs hêmôn]), arranged in six books.

Ils étaient arrivés, en suivant la piste de l'animal, jusqu'au bord de la rivière, juste au moment où retentissait la double détonation du fusil de Georges; leur premier mouvement avait été de croire que c'était un de leurs compagnons qui faisait feu sur le cerf; ils avaient donc porté les yeux vers l'endroit d'où le bruit était venu, et, comme nous l'avons dit, ils avaient vu de loin et vaguement une partie de ce que nous venons de raconter.

Its content is not more precisely defined, and, as a rule, nothing more can be gathered from the context than what Clement once calls [Greek: to koinon tês pisteôs] (VII.