Crossword-Solution: VICTORIES 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Have not I more skill Than thou to draw the horoscope of Thebes? Are not my teachers surer guides than thine— Great Phoebus and the sire of Phoebus, Zeus? Thou art a messenger suborned, thy tongue Is sharper than a sword’s edge, yet thy speech Will bring thee more defeats than victories.

Even the German defeat in the First World War did not persuade ardent nationalists to be content with the victories they had already achieved.

That night the village warriors held a big palaver to celebrate their victories, and to choose a new chief.

His antagonist paused only for sufficient time to permit him to recount for the edification of the audience and the confounding of Korak a brief résumé of his former victories, of his prowess, and of what he was about to do to this puny Tarmangani.

When the Christian hero of a hundred charitable victories plunges into a pitfall that has been dug for him by mistake, oh, what a warning it is to the rest of us to be unceasingly on our guard! How soon may our own evil passions prove to be Oriental noblemen who pounce on us unawares! I could write pages of affectionate warning on this one theme, but (alas!) I am not permitted to improve—I am condemned to narrate.