Crossword-Solution: SCARCEST 8 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Here we have that absolute virgin-gold of song which is the scarcest among human products, and for which we can go to but three poets--Coleridge, Shelley, Chopin, {8} and perhaps we should add Keats.

When Osborne sold the Harley collection, the scarcest old English books fetched but three or four shillings.

One would think that, when food was scarcest, the policy of separating into small bands or pairs, and dispersing over a wide country, would prevail, as a few might subsist where a larger number would starve.

Professor Schleiermacher was one of those men of whom his native Saxony might well be proud; while as a Briton he must say he regretted somewhat that this discovery, like so many others, should have been "Made in Germany." However, Professor Schleiermacher was a specimen of that noble type of scientific men to whom gold was merely the rare metal Au, and diamonds merely the element C in the scarcest of its manifold allotropic embodiments.

Thinking that water, the scarcest here of Nature's gifts, must surely exist in such a lovely region as this, it was more with the keen and critical eye of the explorer in search of that element, than of the admirer of Nature in her wildest grace, that I surveyed the scene.