Crossword-Solution: SHEETY 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Who substituted the one for the other? Did Collins write both, and was dubious which should stand; or do you discover the hand of an audacious emendator? Who would lose the sheety lake in which nothing is reflected but evening's own sky, and the "upland fallows grey," and the last _cool_ gleam! Odious, odious politics! While I am writing, there is an interruption, a sad interruption, to thoughts of poetry and snatches of criticism.

Her complaint is often musical enough if we could but know what it was all about: I wrap my turban of thick clouds around my lab'ring head, And fold the sheety waters as a mantle round my limbs, Yet the red sun and moon, And all the overflowing stars, rain down prolific pains.

Oil, which rounds and conglutinates, spreads less than the sheety medium of Fresco, and if stretched into breadth beyond its natural tone, as the spirits which are used to extenuate its glue escape, returns upon itself, and oftener forms surfaces of dough, or wood, or crust, than fleshy fibre.

Nor dwells destruction on their fleet alone, But driven by winds, invades the neighbouring town: On rapid wings the sheety flames they bear, In wavy lengths, along the reddening air.