Crossword-Solution: WILED 5 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Kidd; there was that much the more to pay for! She could neither be driven nor wiled into the parish kirk; as for taking the sacrament at the hands of any Episcopalian curate, and tenfold more at those of Curate Haddo, there was nothing further from her purposes; and Montroymont had to put his hand in his pocket month by month and year by year.

But the Honest Man explained that as he was merely the agent of a company of other honest men it was none of his affair; and when the officers came to serve him with a subpoena he hid himself behind his back and wiled away the dragging hours of retirement and inaction by picking his own pockets.

Think of it! It is road-making—the most fruitful cause (after taxes) of all rebellions in Samoa, a thing to which they could not be wiled with money nor driven by punishment.

And if I had the hen, she’s to pu’, and to draw, and to dress; how can I do that, and them sitting by the only fire we have?” “Weel, weel, Mysie,” said the butler, “bide ye there a wee, and I’ll try to get the lamp wiled away frae them.” Accordingly, Caleb Balderstone entered the apartment, little aware that so much of his by-play had been audible there.

You ask about Davos; I have discoursed about it already, rather sillily I think, in the _Pall Mall_, and I mean to say no more, but the ways of the Muse are dubious and obscure, and who knows? I may be wiled again.