Crossword-Solution: POMA 4 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Where the “res” is “angusta,” and the weekly books are simply a series of stiff hurdles at each of which in succession the paternal legs falter with growing suspicion of their powers to clear the flight, it is in the affair of CLOTHES that the right of succession tells, and “the hard heir strides about the land” in trousers long ago framed for fraternal limbs--frondes novas et non sua poma.

Crescentem sequitur cura pecuniam Majorumque fames.” To which purpose the poet Lucan says: “—O vitæ tuta facultas Pauperis, angustique lares, o munera nondum Intellecta Deûm!” And Petronius: “Non bibit inter aquas nec poma fugacia carpit Tantalus infelix, quem sua vota premunt.

Between Poma Bridge and Hillsborough it had wasted itself considerably in a broad valley, but still it had gone clean through Hillsborough twelve feet high, demolishing and drowning.

Daybreak realized his worst fears: between Poma Bridge and the first suburb of Hillsborough the place was like a battle-field; not that many had been drowned on the spot, but that, drowned all up the valley by the flood at its highest, they had been brought down and deposited in the thick layer of mud left by the abating waters.

While I write these lines, there still stands at Poma Bridge one disemboweled house, to mark that terrible flood: and even so, this human survivor lives a wreck.