Crossword-Solution: SMALTO 6 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

When I lie in my cool light room on the garden level, I look across the bright grass—_il verde smalto_—to a great red rose bush in lavish disarray against the dark cypress.

When Virgil and the poet were waiting in anxiety before the gates of Dis, when the Furies on the wall were tearing their breasts and crying, 'Venga Medusa, e si 'l farem di smalto,' suddenly across the hideous river came a sound like that which whirlwinds make among the shattered branches and bruised stems of forest-trees; and Dante, looking out with fear upon the foam and spray and vapour of the flood, saw thousands of the damned flying before the face of one who forded Styx with feet unwet.

The woodwork of its roof, and the emblazoned patterns in porphyry and serpentine and glass and smalto, which cover its whole surface, were designed 312 by Oriental decorators.

Love dominates quite as much because its attacks are sudden and unexpected, as because most persons believe that to be in love is a desirable state." "Love," said Cæsar, "is a great general and a great strategist, for he rarely fails to surprise the enemy if he can, but he never refuses an open engagement when necessary." [1] "_Cola diritto, sopra il verde smalto mi fur moetrati gli spiriti magni che del verderli in me stesso 'n esalto_" --INFERNO.

The name "enamel" is traceable to the French word _enail_ and the Italian _smalto_, both having the same root as the Anglo-Saxon word "smelt." The enamels of China and Japan so extensively imported into this country of late years are chiefly made by filling cloisons or cells formed of fine metal wires or plates with coloured enamels and then firing them.