Crossword-Solution: TAMPION 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

For the last fifty years it has spoken only the language of politeness and courtesy, and yet through want of care the tampion, as you see, has become swollen and choked in its mouth." "How true in a larger sense," murmured Mrs.

Jenings, that he come up with his tamkins [Tamkin, or tampion, the wooden stopper of a cannon placed in the muzzle to exclude water or dust.] in his guns.

But when this tampion at this[505] castle did light, It put the castle so fair to flight, That down they came each upon other, No stone left standing, by God's mother! But rolled down so fast the hill In such a number, and so did fill From bottom to brim, from shore to shore, This foresaid river so deep before, That who list now to walk thereto, May wade it over and wet no shoe.

But in a good hour may these[506] words be spoken After the tampion on the walls was wroken, And piece by piece in pieces broken.

When a person once asked him to repair a watch upon which his name was fraudulently engraved, Tampion smashed it with a hammer, and handed the astonished customer one of his own master-pieces, saying, "Sir, here is a watch of my making." Graham invented the "compensating mercury pendulum," the "dead escapement," and the "orrery," none of which have been much improved since.