Crossword-Solution: PRESSER 7 letters, 26 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

But he was still very much a son of the Middle Ages and spent a great deal of time and wasted a lot of money upon a search for the mysterious "Presser John," the mythical Christian Priest who was said to be the Emperor of a vast empire "situated somewhere in the east." The story of this strange potentate had first been told in Europe in the middle of the twelfth century.

For three hundred years people had tried to find "Presser John" and his descendants Henry took part in the search.

Sur ce pied je prends la liberte de vous conseiller en ami et serviteur, de venir ici incessamment, et de presser votre voyage de sorte que vous puissiez paraitre publiquement lundi [18th] vers midi.

Porter,[269] and in the mountains of Galilee by Canon Tristram.[270] The species is the Syrian bear (_Ursus syriacus_), a large and fierce beast, which, though generally frugivorous, will under the presser of hunger attack both men and animals.

Really! So, to avoid slow and painful work, to achieve an easy life, to give herself the leisure favourable to the settlement of her family, the erstwhile cotton-presser or collector of resin-drops took to gnawing hardened cement! She who once sipped the nectar of flowers made up her mind to chew concrete! Why, the poor wretch toils at her filing like a galley-slave! She spends more time in ripping up a cell than it would take her to make a cotton wallet and fill it with food.