Crossword-Solution: TALA 4 letters, 45 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

But they never pretended to hold the region thus ravaged; it was sack, burn, plunder, and away; and these desolating inroads were retaliated in kind by the Moorish cavaliers, whose greatest delight was a “tala,” or predatory incursion, into the Christian territories beyond the mountains.

Alluding to the toil of reaching it, the Madani quote a facetious rhyme inscribed upon the wall by one of their number who had wasted his breath:- "Malun ibn Malun Man tala'a Kubbat Harun!" Anglice, "The man must be a ruffian who climbs up to Aaron's dome." Devout Moslems visit Ohod every Thursday morning after the dawn devotions in the [p.424]Harim; pray for the Martyrs; and, after going through the ceremonies, return to the Harim in time for mid-day worship.

The possessive _ana_ may be used to denote the genitive: _luma ana foaa_ house of prayer, _tala ana fanualama_ way of peace.

The locative need not be used with _lao_: _lao rodo_ in the night, _lao tala_ in the path, _lao salo_ in the sky.

Among the varied street-cries of Bombay, the “_I-scream_” man, the _tala-chavee-walla_, the _botlee-walla_, the vendors of greasy sweetmeats and _bawlee-sugah_, the legion of _borahs_, and that abominable little imp who issues from the newspaper offices, and walks the streets, yelling “Telleecram! tellee-c-r-a-a-m!” among them all there is one voice so penetrating, and so awakening where it penetrates, that—that I cannot find a fitting conclusion to this sentence.