Crossword-Solution: SHRIFTS 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Her days are practis'd in such noble virtue, That sure her nights, nay, more, her very sleeps, Are more in heaven than other ladies' shrifts.

When the congregation were dismissed, the glover and his beautiful daughter lingered for some time, for the purpose of making their several shrifts in the confessionals, where the priests had taken their places for discharging that part of their duty.

Should you, however, decline and desire to remain as at present, may we assume that we are quite safe in regarding these unofficial reports as not representing the true feelings of the troops?" So----! On the face of it this cable seems to suggest that a man widely known as a straight and capable soldier should be given the shortest of shrifts at the instance of "unofficial reports"; i.e., camp gossip.

They whilome used duly everie day Their service and their holie things to say, At morne and even, besides their Anthemes sweete, Their penie Masses, and their Complynes meete, Their Diriges, their Trentals, and their shrifts, Their memories, their singings, and their gifts.

When the weak become foolishly strong, When peoples, unwitting, applaud,— The folly wrought wrong—still is wrong! Give peace in our time, O Lord! When the voice in the senate is stilled; When the councillor speaks in a tent; When the lands are untended, untilled; What use if the stubborn relent? What gain will the simpleton’s shame, The shrifts and lamentings, afford? To-day, on their conduct, the blame; Give peace in our time, O Lord! Give peace: that is rooted in Right.