Crossword-Solution: SHOUTS 6 letters, 17 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Anyone coming along the road from Chobham or Woking would have been amazed at the sight—a dwindling multitude of perhaps a hundred people or more standing in a great irregular circle, in ditches, behind bushes, behind gates and hedges, saying little to one another and that in short, excited shouts, and staring, staring hard at a few heaps of sand.

Even as he spoke, a distant clatter was heard of an approaching coach; louder and louder it grew, one or two shouts became distinguishable, then the rattle of horses’ hoofs on the uneven cobble stones, and the next moment a stable boy had thrown open the coffee-room door and rushed in excitedly.

But their cries had not been entirely fruitless, for now I heard answering shouts and the footfalls of many men running and the clank of accouterments and the commands of officers.

But a big, fine looking man jumps up on a bench and shouts: “Hold on! Just a word, gentlemen.” They stopped to listen.

There came the wild shouts of a new party to the controversy, and the pounding of the feet of many horses from down the road to Bou Saada.