Crossword-Solution: QUIDNUNCS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 21

What a treasure-trove to these venerable quidnuncs, could they have guessed the secret which Hepzibah and Clifford were carrying along with them! But their two figures attracted hardly so much notice as that of a young girl, who passed at the same instant, and happened to raise her skirt a trifle too high above her ankles.

Moreover, there are other marks distinguishing the respective value of the common cards, which would puzzle our club-quidnuncs not a little--such as 'a pine-apple in a shallow cup,' and a something like a parasol without a handle, and with two broken ribs sticking through the top.

But they who were inside, members themselves, and the club quidnuncs who were always rubbing their shoulders against members, knew better.

All the quidnuncs among the 'saints' shook their heads; Mary Grace Burmington, a little embittered by the downfall of her Marks, made a solemn remonstrance to my Father, who, however, allowed my stepmother to carry out her excellent plan.

Many respectable money-lenders would have required “further information” before they would discount his bills; and “clubmen” in general--save, perhaps, those ancient quidnuncs who know everybody, from Adam downwards--had but little acquaintance with him.