Crossword-Solution: QUINTETTE 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

The Golden Girl leaned over; called softly, and up from the sparkling mass shot a green vine whose heads were five flowers of flaming ruby--shot up, flew into her hand and coiled about the white arm, its quintette of lambent blossoms--regarding us! It was the thing Lakla had called the _Yekta_; that with which she had threatened the priestess; the thing that carried the dreadful death--and the Golden Girl was handling it like a rose! Larry swore--I looked at the thing more closely.

What gives its ravishing charm to this quintette is the return to the homelier feelings of life after the grandiose picture of two stupendous and national emotions:--general misery, general joy, expressed with the magic force stamped on them by divine vengeance and with the miraculous atmosphere of the Bible narrative.

This transition combines the heavenly and the earthly in a way which genius alone could invent, giving the _andante_ of this quintette a glow of color that I can only compare to the light thrown by Titian on his Divine Persons.

Omar, the father of another maiden who is to be Mahomet’s concubine, follows Abubekir’s example; he and his daughter join in to form a quintette.

You wouldn't stand much chance if you were caught here." "Not with you to back up so formidable a quintette of stalwarts," assented the tall visitor gaily.