Crossword-Solution: SWIRE 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Little kens the auld wife that sits by the fire, How cauld the wind blaws in hurle-burle swire.” And singing as he went, he left the apartment.

Here lived Charles the page, Peter the old falconer, Red Swire who had followed Nigel’s grandfather to the Scottish wars, Weathercote the broken minstrel, John the cook, and other survivors of more prosperous days, who still clung to the old house as the barnacles to some wrecked and stranded vessel.

And the man, where is he?” “Red Swire and old George the archer threw him into the Thursley bog.” “Alas! I fear me such things cannot be done in these days, though my father or my husband would have sent the rascal back to Guildford without his ears.

Now at this last rally when the young head of the house lay bound in his own hall, there mustered at his call the page Charles with a cudgel, John the cook with his longest spit, Red Swire the aged man-at-arms with a formidable ax swung over his snowy head, and Weathercote the minstrel with a boar-spear.

Yet this motley array was fired with the spirit of the house, and under the lead of the fierce old soldier they would certainly have flung themselves upon the ready swords of the archers, had the Lady Ermyntrude not swept between them: “Stand back, Swire!” she cried.