Crossword-Solution: TEEL 4 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Weller, ‘there’s somethin’ in that; and I wish your mother-in-law ‘ud only conduct her conwersation on the same gen-teel principle.

Why don’t you ever tell what trade you’re of?’ ‘Answer the captain instantly,’ cried Hugh, beating his hat down on his head; ‘why don’t you ever tell what trade you’re of?’ ‘I’m of as gen-teel a calling, brother, as any man in England--as light a business as any gentleman could desire.’ ‘Was you ‘prenticed to it?’ asked Mr Tappertit.

Wading into its waters with his naked sword in one hand, and the banner of Castile (kas-teel) in the other, he solemnly declared that the ocean, and all the shores which it might touch, belonged to the crown of Spain forever.

There were sturdy Teel, and heavy Eaton, and frisky Burnham, and bluff Rykman, with round-eyed Fanny Dwight and another graceful Fanny, and oh! so many more men and women, friends and workers striving for a sublime idea.

TEEL." I am tempted also to add the following extract from a letter written years ago by a friend of the movement in his eightieth year to his son:-- "To many, Brook Farm may have been a dream that ended with the scattering of that little band of workers.