Crossword-Solution: RHUM 4 letters, 22 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Signor Quinto went to the cafe, and consumed his little cup of black coffee, with its abominable potion of so-called "rhum" in it, and the morsel of dry bread, which constituted his accustomed breakfast; and then, as he was returning to his lodging, encountered the "impresario" in the street.

Jacques alla donc chercher au kraal voisin les cinquante Grands-Namaquois vendus; après quoi, le chef hottentot vint prendre au brick les deux pipes de rhum promises.

Toutes les rues qui donnaient sur le camp malabar, c'est-à-dire sur le point par lequel les révoltés devaient pénétrer dans la ville étaient illuminées comme pour un jour de fête, et, de place en place, en face des maisons principales avaient été placés des tonneaux d'arrack, d'eau-de-vie et de rhum défoncés, comme pour une distribution gratis.

Fish, of course, is always fresh at Boulogne and generally excellent in quality, and the shell-fish are above suspicion--at least I never heard of anybody suffering from eating _moules_,--therefore a _Sole Normande_ or any similar dish generally forms part of a _déjeuner_ on the pier, and this with an _entrecôte_ and an _omelette au rhum_ makes a fine solid sea-side feast.

There's a narrow street; a few pretty old cottages; a comfortable hotel where we had crabs, divine though devilled, and _omelette au rhum_ floating in flames of the blue I should like my eyes to be when angry; there's a post-office, and--nothing else that I can think of, except circling hills, a golden sweep of beach, and sea of ethereal azure creaming against contorted rocks.