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

Some of the prisoners, after long service, were used as “trusties” or “runners,” as they were locally called; but not many.

Those craven knees of his gave way under him, so that trusties had to hold the weakening ruffian upright while the executioner snugged the halter about his throat.

Our men was good old trusties-- They'd done it on their 'ead; But you ought to 'ave 'eard 'em markin' time To 'ide the things 'e said! _For it was "Right flank--wheel!" for "'Alt, an' stand at ease!" An' "Left extend!" for "Centre close!" O marker, shut your eye! An' it was, "'Ere, sir, 'ere! before the colonel sees!" So he needed affidavits pretty badly by-an'-bye._ There was two-an'-thirty sergeants, There was corp'rals forty-one, There was just nine 'undred rank an' file To swear to a touch o' sun.

Sound policy therefore requires that the mode of election should be changed, and that Trusties, in future, should be elected by some other body of men.

But, sorrowful to relate, among the first to go and the last to be heard from were two of Priscilla's trusties--gone no man could say whither--and in addition to this catastrophe something had strangely, surely gone amiss with her paragon, Blenke--Blenke the scholarly, Blenke the writer and linguist--and Priscilla's world was reeling under her well-shod feet.